Constituency
285. Labhpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-LABHPUR
CPM 53.6%won by 33.6%INC 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 33.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 49.5% to 53.6% of the vote here (+4.1%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 19.9% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
35,183
Margin
11,837
33.64%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNIL KUMAR MAZUMDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,85353.6%
- 2EUNIS MALLICKIndian National Congress · INC7,01619.9%
- 3SUKHENDRA KUMAR ROYJanata Party · JNP4,68313.3%
- 4NIRMAL KRISHNA SINHACommunist Party of India · CPI2,2636.4%
- 5BYOM SANMAR SENIndependent · IND6411.8%
- 6RAM KUMAR SENIndependent · IND6221.8%
- 7SK. SAMANIIndependent · IND4781.4%
- 8NARAYAN CHANDRA PATRAIndependent · IND4451.3%
- 9SANAT KUMAR CHATTOPADHYAYIndependent · IND1820.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- −15.8%
- CPM share
- 49.5% → 53.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —