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 151–200 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
KALYANPUR	CPMNITAI CHARAN ADAK	JNPARABINDA ROY	10,33920.33%	63.1%
KAMARHATI	CPMRADHIKA RANJAN BANERJEE	INCJAYANTA CHANDRA SEN	27,89646.94%	47.9%
KANDI	INCATISH CHANDRA SINHA	JNPJAGADISH SINHA	6,79011.68%	61.2%
KANKSA	CPMLAKSHINARAYAN SAHA	INCSAMIR KUMAR SAHA	18,71641.58%	55.7%
KARANDIGHI	INCHAJI SAJJAD HUSSAIN	JNPAMAREN IRANATH SINHA	3,6399.68%	48.7%
KARIMPUR	CPMSAMARENDRA NATH SANYAL	INCARABINDRA MANDAL	11,75821.33%	71.5%
KASHIPUR	CPMSURENDRA NATH MAJHI	JNPRAMPADA MAJHI	1,9335.63%	43.6%
KATWA	CPMHARAMOHAN SINHA	JNPNITYANANDA THAKUR	23,73440.00%	61.3%
KESHIARI	CPMKHUDIRAM SINGH	INCBUDHAN CHANDRA TUDU	7,24817.82%	54.1%
KESHPUR	INCRAJANI KANTA DOLOI	CPMAJOY KUMAR DOLUI	7,47314.85%	64.0%
KETUGRAM	CPMRAICHARAN MAJHI	INCPRAVAKAR MANDAL	20,00442.33%	54.9%
KHAJURI	JNPSUNIRMAL PAIK	CPMSUNIL SIT	9,06420.80%	56.3%
KHANAKUL	JNPPANCHANAN DIGPATI	CPMSACHINDRA NATH HAZRA	1700.35%	54.7%
KHANDAGHOSH	CPMPURNA CHANDRA MALIK	INCMONORANJAN PRAMANIK	14,12428.43%	60.0%
KHARAGPUR RURAL	CPMSK. SIRAJ ALI	CPIDEBAN DAS	3790.89%	54.3%
KHARAGPUR TOWN	JNPSUDHIR DASSHARMA	CPMJATINDRA NATH MITRA	4,52410.78%	39.6%
KHARBA	INDGOLAM YAZDANI	INCMAHABUBUL HAQUE	9,78517.77%	67.3%
KHARDAH	CPMKAMAL SARKAR	INCHARSHADHARI BHATTACHARYYA	25,77248.91%	54.1%
KHARGRAM	CPMDINABANDHU MAJHI	INCHARENDRA NATH HALDER	12,24226.83%	48.8%
KOTULPUR	CPMGUNADHAR CHOUDHARY	INCAKSHAY KUMAR KOLEY	10,69822.31%	62.7%
KRANTI	CPMPARIMAL MITRA	INCABDUL HASNAT MOHAMMED ABU SALEQUE	2,0755.03%	54.2%
KRISHNAGANJ	CPMJNANENDRANATH BISWAS	JNPAMULYA KUMAR BISWAS	10,50423.73%	64.7%
KRISHNAGAR EAST	JNPKASHIKANTA MAITRA	CPMSADHAN CHTTOPADHDYAY	2040.43%	58.6%
KRISHNAGAR WEST	CPMAMRITENDU MUKHERJEE	JNPMOHADEB BHATTACHARYA	19,17143.73%	59.3%
KULPI	CPMKRISHNADHAN HALDER	INCSANTOSH KUMAR MONDAL	7,48415.42%	56.3%
KULTALI	SUCPROBODH PURKAIT	JNPANANDI TANTI	9,33618.15%	53.0%
KULTI	MFBMADHU BANERJEE	INCGHATAK SIBDAS	3761.03%	39.7%
KUMARGANJ	CPMJAMINI KISORE MOJUMDAR	INCKHALIL SAYED	5,2118.71%	68.6%
KUMARGRAM	RSPJOHN ARTHER BAXLA	INCKONDA BHAGAT	7,33917.24%	57.5%
KURSEONG	INCDAWA NORBULA	CPMANAND PATHAK	1,5513.58%	51.1%
KUSHMANDI	INCDHIRENDRA NATH SARKAR	RSPJOGENDRA NATH ROY	3,0077.42%	49.0%
LABHPUR	CPMSUNIL KUMAR MAZUMDAR	INCEUNIS MALLICK	11,83733.64%	48.4%
LALGOLA	INCABDUS SATTAR	CPMZAINAL AABEDIN	21,21540.18%	67.8%
MADARIHAT	RSPA. H. BESTERWITCH	INCDHIRENDRA NARJINARY	7,73821.51%	51.9%
MAGRAHAT EAST	CPMRADJIKA RANJAN PRAMANIK	INCMONORANJAN HALDER	17,59930.27%	61.9%
MAGRAHAT WEST	CPMCHHOBHAN GAZI	INCSUDHENDU MUNDLE	20,93639.01%	63.3%
MAHAMMAD BAZAR	CPMDHIRENDRA NATH SEN	INCNITAI PADA GHOSH	8,18819.47%	52.5%
MAHESHTALA	CPMSUDHIR BHANDARI	JNPMALI SAFIUDDIN	17,13238.14%	51.9%
MAHISHADAL	JNPSASWATI BAG	CPMDINABANDHU MANDAL	14,20930.56%	61.0%
MAINAGURI	RSPTARAK BANDHU ROY	JNPBHABENDRA NATH ROY HAKIM	3,3598.41%	51.1%
MAL	CPMMOHAN LAL ORAON	INCANTANI TOPNO	7,78519.56%	53.4%
MALDA	CPMSUBHENDU CHOUDHURY	JNPBALARAM SAHA	6,71417.81%	55.5%
MANBAZAR	CPMNAKUL CHANDRA MAHATA	INCSITARAM MAHATO	3,7367.16%	56.7%
MANDIRBAZAR	SUCRENUPADA HALDER	CPMSUBHAS CHANDRA ROY	5,59510.21%	59.7%
MANGALKOT	CPMNIKHILANANDA SAR	JNPMADAN CHOWDHURY	15,60132.02%	59.7%
MANICKTOLA	CPMSUHRID MULLICK CHOWDHURY	JNPASHOK DAS GUPTA	14,01525.45%	51.8%
MANIKCHAK	CPMSUBODH CHOUDHURY	INCJCKHILAL MONDAL	1340.30%	57.8%
MANTESWAR	CPMHEMANTA KUMAR ROY	INCTUHIN KUMAR SAMANTA	19,45039.51%	56.8%
MATHABHANGA	CPMDINESH CHANDRA DAKUA	INCPRATAP SINGHA	13,73531.07%	59.5%
MATHURAPUR	INCSATYA RANJAN BAPULI	SUCROBIN MONDAL	3,6765.75%	65.3%

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.