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 101–150 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GARHBETA EAST	CPMSUBHENDU MONDAL	JNPPANCHANAN SINHA ROY	2,2865.45%	58.9%
GARHBETA WEST	CPMSANTOSH BISUI	CPIKRISHANA PRASAD DULEY	5,77612.43%	56.7%
GHATAL	CPMGOPAL MONDAL	JNPBANESWAR SAHA	8,25620.32%	51.1%
GOALPOKHAR	INDRAMJAN ALI	INDPURAN CHAND MEHESWARI	10,69628.62%	44.8%
GOGHAT	JNPNANURAM ROY	FBLARATI BISWAS	3,0436.73%	52.0%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	INDSANTOSH RANA	CPMABANI BHUSAN SATPATHI	1,6873.23%	59.7%
GOSABA	RSPGANESH CHANDRA MONDAL	INCPARESH BAIDYA	7,77015.41%	61.7%
HABIBPUR	CPMMURMU SARKAR	JNPBOBILA MURMU	8,26822.63%	45.9%
HABRA	CPMNIRODE ROY CHOWDHURY	INCKRISHNADAS CHATTOPADHYAY	12,61422.96%	59.1%
HANSAN	RCITRILOCHAN MAL	INDASIT KUMAR MAL	7,98921.26%	48.9%
HANSKHALI	CPMSUKUMAR MONDAL	INCANANDA MOHAN BISWAS	5,80110.06%	68.5%
HARIHARPARA	INCSHAIKH IMAJUDDIN	SUCABU RAIHAN BISWAS	1,6973.07%	64.2%
HARINGHATA	CPMMALAKAR NANIGOPAL	INCMANAS KUMAR GANGULY	11,95420.87%	65.8%
HARIPAL	CPMBALAI BANDHOPADHYAY	INCCHANDRASEKHAR BANIK	13,83327.48%	67.3%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	JNPBIRENDRA KUMAR MAITRA	WPIMOHAMMAD ELIAS RAZI	2,6894.85%	64.9%
HAROA	CPMKSHITI RANJAN MONDAL	JNPBRAJENDRA NATH SARKAR	15,79038.01%	47.5%
HASNABAD	CPMAMIYA BANERJEE	INCMOLLA TASMATULLA	3,5468.39%	55.9%
HINGALGANJ	CPMSUDHANGSHU MONDAL	JNPAMAL KRISHNA MISTRI	12,48623.37%	61.9%
HIRAPUR	CPMBAMAPADA MUKHERJEE	INCSANTIMOY AICH	14,85936.26%	44.2%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	INDSUDHINDRA NATH KUMAR	JNPSUKUMAR BANERJEE	6,03112.48%	48.6%
HOWRAH NORTH	CPMCHITABRATA MAZUMDAR	INCSUPRIYA BASU	9,42916.60%	46.5%
HOWRAH SOUTH	CPMPRALEY TALUKDAR	INCAMBIKA PRASAD BANERJEE	13,00726.76%	45.9%
HURA	CPMAMBARISH MUKHOPADHYAY	JNPRAJ RAJESHWARI PRASAD SINGHADEO	6211.68%	45.8%
INDAS	CPMBADAN BORA	JNPNABADURGA	19,03843.10%	56.3%
INDPUR	JNPBINODE BEHARI MAJI	BBCRADHARAMAN MOI	6,13713.23%	49.8%
ISLAMPUR	INDCHOWDHARY ABDUL KARIM	INDGOUTAM GUPTA	9,31724.56%	49.2%
ITAHAR	INCZAIMAL ABEDIN	CPMSALIL KUMAR GUHA	10,36320.09%	64.0%
JADAVPUR	CPMDINESH MAJUMDAR	JNPSANTIMOY CHATTERJEE	25,42246.11%	54.6%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	CPMM. ANSARUDDIN	INCBRINDABAN GHOSH	21,75739.48%	61.1%
JAGATDAL	FBLNIHAR KUMAR BASU	INCSUDHIN BHATTACHARJEE	21,29842.80%	49.4%
JAIPUR	INCRAM KRISHNA MAHATO	JNPCHAKRADHAR MAHATO	1,8835.12%	46.3%
JALANGI	CPMATAHAR RAHAMAN	INDRANJIT KUMAR HALDAR	9,26115.70%	62.0%
JALPAIGURI	FBLNIRMAL KUMAR BOSE	JNPDEVENDRA MOHAN SARKAR	6,34214.39%	52.4%
JAMALPUR	MFBSUNIL SANTRA	INCPURANJOY PRAMANIK	6,27514.72%	52.9%
JAMURIA	CPMBIKASH CHOWDHURY	INCCHANDRA SEKHAR BANDOPADHYA	11,49029.14%	43.5%
JANGIPARA	CPMMANINDRA NATH JANA	INCGANESH CHANDRAJ HATUI	19,63936.82%	60.8%
JANGIPUR	INCHABIBUR RAHAMAN	SUCACHINTYA SINGHA	9,54518.80%	60.5%
JHALDA	FBLSATYA RANJAN MAHATO	INCSUBHAS CHANDRA MAHATO	11,52226.42%	53.8%
JHARGRAM	CPMRAM CHANDRA SATPATHY	INCBIRENDRA BIJOY MALLA DEB	8,98217.24%	57.3%
JORABAGAN	JNPHARIPADA BHARATI	CPMHARA PRASAD CHATTERJEE	7,92019.58%	39.2%
JORASANKO	JNPVISHNU KANT SHASTRI	INCDEOKI NANDAN PODDAR	4,81515.18%	38.8%
JOYNAGAR	SUCDEBA PROSAD SARKAR	JNPJNANTOSH CHAKRABORTI	14,52025.40%	60.1%
KABITIRTHA	FBLKALIMUDDIN SHAMS	INCRAM PYARE RAM	12,90823.57%	45.9%
KAKDWIP	CPMHRISHIKESH MAITY	INCBASUDEB SAUTYA	14,58728.54%	62.3%
KALCHINI	RSPMANOHAR TIRKEY	INCDENISH LAKRA	13,36636.41%	53.3%
KALIACHAK	INCSAMSUDDIN AHMMAD	JNPPROMODE RANJAN BASU	6461.01%	72.2%
KALIAGANJ	INCNABA KUMAR ROY	CPMNANI GOPAL ROY	5501.36%	51.9%
KALIGANJ	RSPDEBSARAN GHOSH	JNPS. M. FAZLUR RAHMAN	3,1225.88%	70.0%
KALIMPONG	INDSUBHA RENULEENA	INCGURUNG GAJENDRA	4,93815.07%	46.3%
KALNA	CPMGURUPRASAD SINHA ROY	JNPDEBENDRA BEJOY GHOSH	18,75233.03%	63.5%

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.