Constituency
527. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-HOOGHLY
CPM 62.6%won by 29.7%INC 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.4% to 29.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 87.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 63.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,60,707
Turnout
63.8%
Valid votes
3,57,512
Margin
1,06,259
29.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1BIJOY KRISHNA MODAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,23,81862.6%
- 2BISHNU CHARAN BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC1,17,55932.9%
- 3NIRMAL KUMAR SENIndependent · IND12,5363.5%
- 4SATYA CHARAN GHOSHRPI · RPI3,5991.0%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +22.4%
- CPM share
- 47.5% → 62.6%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 67.7% → 63.8%