Constituency
539. Burdwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BURDWAN
BLD 53.7%won by 20.0%INC 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 20.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BLD vote shareBLD went from 0.0% to 53.7% of the vote here (+53.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.7% to 55.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,38,853
Turnout
55.5%
Valid votes
3,54,473
Margin
71,003
20.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BLD- 1RAJ KRISHNA DAWNBLD · BLD1,90,31853.7%
- 2SHYAMA PRASAD KUNDUIndian National Congress · INC1,19,31533.7%
- 3NARAYAN CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND44,84012.6%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +58.9%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 53.7%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- 62.2% → 55.5%