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 51–100 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BOW BAZAR	CPMABUL HASAN	JNPBIJOY KRISHNA DHANDHANIA	2,3266.40%	39.8%
BUDGE BUDGE	CPMKHITIBHUSAN BURMON	INCBIPULANANDA GUHA ROY	26,57853.70%	55.2%
BURDWAN NORTH	CPMDWARKA NATH TAH	INCSUDHIR CHANDRA DAWN	24,36644.73%	57.5%
BURDWAN SOUTH	CPMBENOY KRISHNA CHOWDHRY	INCPRADIP BHATTACHARYYA	12,38422.05%	42.8%
BURTOLA	RSPNIKHIL DAS	INCAJIT KUMAR PANDA	4,6618.72%	46.6%
CANNING EAST	CPMABDUR RAZZAK MOLLA	JNPOSMAN GANI	12,60430.19%	54.3%
CANNING WEST	CPMCHITTA RANJAN MRIDHA	INCGOBINDA CHANDRA NASLAR	4,6657.99%	57.8%
CHAKDAHA	INDBINOY KUMAR BISWAS	INCSARADINDU BISWAS	20,34334.40%	57.5%
CHAMPDANI	CPMSAIDNDRA NATH CHATTOPADHYAY	JNPBIBASH CHANDRA GHOSH	25,98847.06%	55.2%
CHANDERNAGORE	CPMBHABANI MUKHERJEE	INCASIT MUKHOPADHYAY	29,58148.92%	58.0%
CHANDITALA	CPMMALIN GHOSH	JNPSEKH ABDUR RAHIM	27,72352.61%	58.0%
CHANDRAKONA	CPMUMAPATI CHAKRABARTY	INCJAGANNATH GOSWAMI	13,48328.96%	56.1%
CHAPRA	CPMSAHABUDDIN MONDAL	JNPKAZI SAFLUDDIN	19,52935.56%	71.4%
CHHATNA	RSPSUBHAS GOSWAMI	INCKAMALAKANTA HEMBRAM	8592.20%	45.7%
CHINSURAH	FBLSAMBHU CHARAN GHOSH	INCADHYAPAK CHANDRA KUMAR DEY	20,13343.44%	53.3%
CHOPRA	CPMMOHA BACHCHA MUNSI	INDNARAYAN CHANDRA SINHA	8,86923.21%	52.0%
CHOWRINGHEE	JNPSANDIP DAS	CPMAMAL DATTA	2,1715.94%	38.1%
CONTAI NORTH	JNPRASBEHARI PAL	INCSAILAJA DAS	15,34329.88%	58.9%
CONTAI SOUTH	JNPSATYA BRATA MAITI	INDSUDHIR CHANDRA DAS	27,59262.16%	53.7%
COOCH BEHAR NORTH	FBLAPARAJITA GOPPI	INCBIMAL CHANDRA DHAR	24,20046.55%	57.9%
COOCH BEHAR WEST	FBLBIMAL KANTI BASU	INCMAQSUDAR RAHMAN	22,16843.67%	56.2%
COSSIPUR	CPMBUDDHADEV BHATTACHARJEE	INCPRAFULLA KANTI GHOSH	5,97613.27%	48.3%
DANTAN	JNPPRADYOT KUMAR MAHANTI	CPIDWIBEDI RABINDRA NATH	3,4036.93%	61.6%
DARJEELING	INDDEO PRAKASH RAI	CPMSANGDOPAL LEPCHA	4,19310.56%	43.5%
DASPUR	CPMPRABHAS CHANDRA PHADIKAR	JNPBANKIM CHANDRA SASHMAL	14,13731.70%	54.7%
DEBRA	CPMSYED MORAZZAM HOSSAIN	INCSUKUMAR DAS	2,6025.96%	61.4%
DEGANGA	MULA. K. M. HASSAN UZZAMAN	FBLMD. YAKUB	12,35927.14%	61.7%
DHAKURIA	RSPJATIN CHAKRAVARTY	INCARABINDA PRASAD DAS GUPTA	17,16726.22%	55.9%
DHANIAKHALI	FBLKRIPA SINDHU SAHA	INCKASHINATH PATRA	16,60236.39%	62.7%
DHUPGURI	CPMBANAMALI ROY	INCJAGADANANDA ROY	1,9765.52%	51.3%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	CPMABDUL QUIYOM MOLLA	JNPSANKARI PRASAD MONDAL	17,34328.46%	60.1%
DINHATA	FBLKAMAL KANTI GUHA	INCALOK KUMAR NANDI	21,21735.50%	61.4%
DOMJUR	CPMJOYKESH MUKHERJEE	INCKRISHNA PADA ROY	24,57642.83%	60.3%
DOMKAL	CPMMD. ABDUL BARI	INCEKRAMUL HAQUE BISWAS	14,84425.59%	63.9%
DUBRAJPUR	FBLBHAKTI BHUSAN MANDAL	JNPENAYET KARIM CHOWDHURY	11,54631.50%	43.8%
DUM DUM	CPMTARUN SEN GUPTA	INCLAL BAHADUR SINGH	28,03942.94%	53.7%
DURGAPUR-I	CPMDILIP KUMAR MAJUNDAR	INCTAPAN DAS GUPTA	17,70537.93%	37.9%
DURGAPUR-II	CPMTARUN CHATTERJEE	INCAJIT BANERJEE	21,81540.76%	37.0%
EGRA	JNPPRABODH CHANDRA SINHA	CPMANADI NANDAN DAS	24,48152.28%	56.2%
ENGLISHBAZAR	CPMSAILEN SARKAR	JNPHARI PRASANNA MISRA	2500.57%	51.6%
ENTALLY	CPMMD. NEZAMUDDIN	JNPBIMAN BEHARI MITRA	7,55920.73%	45.4%
FALAKATA	CPMJOGENDRA NATH SINGH ROY	INCGAJENDRA NATH BARMAN	7,81317.22%	59.6%
FALTA	CPMNEMAI CHANDRA DAS	INCMOHINI MOHAN PARUI	18,72537.34%	64.1%
FARAKKA	CPMABUL HASNAT KHAN	INDJERAR ALI	3,5948.91%	54.7%
GAIGHATA	CPMKANTI CHANDRA BISWAS	INCRADHA PADA BISWAS	8,05812.16%	66.9%
GAJOL	CPMSUFAL MURMU	JNPSHYAM MURMU	8,47021.68%	52.0%
GALSI	FBLDEBRANJAN SEN	INCNIRADENDU KONER	18,53843.38%	50.0%
GANGAJALGHATI	CPMNABANI BARUI	INCSAKTIPADA MAJI	21,32747.47%	49.5%
GANGARAMPUR	CPMAHINDRA SARKAR	INCMOSLEHUDDIN AHMED	3,0755.89%	60.6%
GARDEN REACH	CPMCHHEDILAL SINGH	INCS. M. ABDULLAH	8,77218.56%	43.5%

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.