Constituency
506. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BALURGHAT
RSP 57.6%won by 15.3%INC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 15.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 16.3% to 57.6% of the vote here (+41.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 64.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,57,919
Turnout
64.1%
Valid votes
3,57,661
Margin
54,563
15.26%
Candidates
2 contested · winner RSP- 1PALAS BARMANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,06,11257.6%
- 2RASENDRA NATH BURMANIndian National Congress · INC1,51,54942.4%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +46.6%
- RSP share
- 16.3% → 57.6%
- INC share
- 47.6% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- 67.7% → 64.1%