Constituency
513. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BARASAT
FBL 56.2%won by 31.9%CPI 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 31.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 0.0% to 56.2% of the vote here (+56.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.4% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 59.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,09,986
Turnout
59.5%
Valid votes
3,62,741
Margin
1,15,794
31.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL2,03,69456.2%
- 2RANEN SENCommunist Party of India · CPI87,90024.2%
- 3SHYAMAL CHATTTERJEEIndependent · IND49,61113.7%
- 4C.F.ALIIndependent · IND18,3665.1%
- 5A.F.M. BADIAZZAMANIndependent · IND2,6120.7%
- 6SWAPAN KUMAR CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND5580.2%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–CPI swing
- +65.2%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 56.2%
- CPI share
- 33.3% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- 61.5% → 59.5%