West Bengal assembly election, Oct 1977

294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 55.15% turnout.

Seats

294

Candidates

1,572

27 women, 3 elected

Turnout

55.15%

1.43 cr of 2.6 cr

Leading party

CPM

178 of 294 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	178	+164	224	50,80,828	35.46%	+8.01
JNP Janata Party	29	+29	289	28,69,391	20.02%	—
FBL All India Forward Bloc	25	+25	36	7,50,229	5.24%	+2.75
INC Indian National Congress	20	-196	290	32,98,063	23.02%	-26.06
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	20	+17	23	5,36,625	3.74%	+1.61
IND Independent	10	+5	569	9,91,856	6.92%	+3.38
SUC SUC	4	+3	29	2,11,752	1.48%	-0.31
CPI Communist Party of India	2	-33	63	3,75,560	2.62%	-5.71
RCI RCI	2	+2	3	53,654	0.37%	+0.02
MFB MFB	2	+2	2	32,962	0.23%	—
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	1	0	32	54,942	0.38%	-0.53
BBC BBC	1	+1	3	35,955	0.25%	—
WPI WPI	0	-1	2	29,221	0.20%	-0.27
JKD JKD	0	0	2	5,701	0.04%	—
RPI RPI	0	0	3	1,652	0.01%	-0.02
IGL IGL	0	-2	2	810	0.01%	-0.26

CPM178 (61%)
JNP29 (10%)
FBL25 (9%)
INC20 (7%)
RSP20 (7%)
IND10 (3%)
Others12 (4%)

CPM178
JNP29
FBL25
INC20
RSP20
IND10
Others12

CPM178
JNP29
FBL25
INC20
RSP20
IND10
SUC4
CPI2
Others6

Constituency performance

From the 294 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

BAGDAHA

won by 83 (0.15%)

Biggest victory

SATGACHIA

won by 38,446 (67.42%)

Highest turnout

BANKURA

85.19%

Lowest turnout

BARA BAZAR

29.82%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1972), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained0 (0%)
Changed hands0 (0%)
New seat294 (100%)

0 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 0 changed hands. 294 did not exist at the previous election.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ALIPORE	CPMASHOKE KUMAR BOSE	JNPSALIL BARAN CHATTERJEE	9,09118.79%	50.0%
ALIPURDUARS	RSPNANI BHATTACHARYA	INCNARAYAN BHATTACHARYA	23,47241.47%	61.0%
AMDANGA	CPMHASHIM ABDUL HALIM	JNPMIRA DUTTA	15,75430.04%	65.4%
AMTA	CPMBARINDRA NATH KOLEY	INCAFTABUDDIN MONDAL	23,22045.91%	57.3%
ARAIDANGA	CPMHABIB MUSTAFA	INCMD. GOFURUR RAHAMAN	1,5973.95%	54.8%
ARAMBAGH	JNPAJOY KR. DEY	CPMMADAN MOHAN SAHA	17,36932.04%	57.7%
ARSA	FBLDAMAN CHANDRA KUIRY	JNPTILAKESHWAR MAJHI	14,07829.89%	55.5%
ASANSOL	CPMHARADHAN ROY	INCGOPIKARANJAN MITRA	4,91713.11%	35.8%
ASHOKENAGAR	CPMNANI KAR	INDKESHAB CHANDRA BHATTACHARJEE	13,81523.81%	57.0%
AURANGABAD	INCLUTFAL HAQUE	CPMSOHIDUL ALAM	5,31410.72%	64.1%
AUSGRAM	CPMSHREEDHAR MALIK	JNPMADAN LOHAR	24,38349.23%	57.4%
BADURIA	CPMMOSTAFA BIN QUASEM	INCZULFIQUER ALI	11,75324.11%	56.5%
BAGDAHA	FBLKAMALAKSHMI BISWAS	INDAPURBA LAL MAJUMDAR	830.15%	72.5%
BAGNAN	CPMNIRUPAMA CHATTERJEE	INCSUSHANTA BHATTACHARYA	15,87726.92%	64.7%
BALAGARH	CPMABIMNASH PRAMANIK	INCGAURANGA HALDER	20,08043.63%	62.5%
BALLY	CPMPATIPABAN PATHAK	INCGANESH PATHAK	16,27933.67%	46.2%
BALLYGUNGE	CPMSACHIN SEN	INCSUBRATA MUKHEREJEE	8,43215.75%	48.8%
BALRAMPUR	CPMBIKRAM TUDU	INCRUP SINGH MAJHI	9,24426.32%	45.9%
BALURGHAT	RSPBISWANATH CHOUDHAURI	INCJYOTISWAR SARKAR	16,08929.23%	71.3%
BANDUAN	CPMSUDHANGSHU SEKHAR MAJHI	INCBUDDESWAR MAJHI	3,4449.59%	44.1%
BANKURA	CPMPARTHA DE	JNPANANDI KUNDU	10,75723.73%	85.2%
BANSBERIA	CPMPRABIR KUMAR SEN GUPTA	JNPSANAT MAJUMDAR	20,25940.49%	58.0%
BARA BAZAR	JNPRABI SHANKAR PANDEY	INCRAMKRISHNA SAROGI	4,46315.89%	29.8%
BARABANI	CPMSUNIL BASU ROY	INCSUKUMAR BANDOPADHYA	6,84015.06%	42.9%
BARANAGAR	RSPMATISH RAY	INCKUMUD BHATTACHARJEE	16,58626.79%	45.7%
BARASAT	FBLSARAL DEB	INCKANTI RANJAN CHATOPADHYAYA	19,97935.54%	54.8%
BARJORA	CPMASWINI KUMAR RAJ	INCSUDHANGSHU SEKHAR TEWARI	25,12243.08%	60.2%
BARUIPUR	CPMHEMEN MAJUMDAR	INCRAM KANTA MANDAL	19,41635.50%	60.8%
BARWAN	RSPAMALENDRA ROY	INCSUNIL MOHAN GHOSH MOULIK	14,78336.26%	42.6%
BASANTI	RSPKALIPADA BARMAN	INCCHITTARANJAN NASKAR	12,93027.38%	50.1%
BASIRHAT	CPMNARAYAN MUKHERJEE	INCDEBI PRASAD NANDA	14,13525.00%	54.6%
BEHALA EAST	CPMNIRANJAN MUKHERJEE	INCINDRAJIT MAJUMDAR	26,51146.76%	53.5%
BEHALA WEST	CPMRABIN MUKHERJEE	INCSUBODH CHANDRA DAS	22,45337.95%	50.8%
BELDANGA	RSPTIMIR BARAN BHADURY	INCNURUL ISLAM CHOWDHURY	11,78417.44%	68.2%
BELGACHIA EAST	CPMSUBHAS CHAKRABORTY	JNPSAMIR CHATTERJEE	20,85330.97%	49.9%
BELGACHIA WEST	CPMLAKSHMI CHARAN SEN	INCBHUPENDRA NATH SEN GUPTA	9,23717.40%	53.1%
BELIAGHATA	CPMKRISHNA PADA GHOSH	JNPPREMANANDA BOSE	17,49133.43%	50.1%
BERHAMPORE	RSPDEBABRATA BANDOPADHYAY	INCSUBRATA SAHA	19,96735.16%	55.2%
BHAGABANGOLA	INDKAZI HAFIZUR RAHAMAN	CPMSHEIKH KAZIMUDDIN AHMAD	4,0219.07%	59.6%
BHAGABANPUR	JNPHARIPADA JANA	CPMPRASANTA KR. PRADHAN	9,27719.06%	62.8%
BHANGAR	CPMDAUD KHAN	JNPAMIR ALI MOLLA	1,0482.45%	53.7%
BHARATPUR	RSPSATYAPADA BHATTACHARYYA	INDABDUL MANNAN	13,20132.87%	45.3%
BHATAR	INCBHOLANATH SEN	FBLSAKTIPADA CHATTOPADHYA	8,73716.84%	58.9%
BHATPARA	CPMSITA RAM GUPTA	INCSATYA NARAIN SINGH	23,24544.51%	43.5%
BIJPUR	CPMJAGADISH CHANDRA DAS	INCJAGADISH CHANDRA DAS S/O AKUL	20,26039.14%	47.0%
BINPUR	CPMSAMBHUNATH MANDI	JNPDAKHIN MURMU	1,5513.88%	46.5%
BISHNUPUR EAST	CPMSUNDAR NASKAR	INCRAMKRISHNA BAR	15,14137.67%	57.4%
BISHNUPUR WEST	CPMPROVESH CHANDRA RAY	INCMOAUE HAQUE SHAIK	24,42944.25%	67.5%
BOLPUR	RSPJYOTSNA KUMAR GUPTA	INCGEURHARI CHANDRA	5,65415.27%	49.1%
BONGAON	CPMRANJIT MITRA	INCBHUPENDRA NATH SETH	9,20115.59%	63.0%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.