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All 42 West Bengal seats in theLok Sabha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1977 Indian general election was held inWest Bengal to elect 42 members of the6th Lok Sabha.
This election took place after the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. In the aftermath, the newly formed Janata Party formed an alliance with the CPI(M)-led front, while the CPI aligned with the Indian National Congress (INC).[1][2][3][4]
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  |  | 20 | ||
| Janata Party | Morarji Desai | 15 | |||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party |  |  | 3 | ||
| All India Forward Bloc |  |  | 3 | ||
| Independent | 1 | ||||
| Total | 42 | ||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress |  | 34 | |||
| Communist Party of India |  |  | 8 | ||
| Total | 42 | ||||
| Party | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|
| Socialist Unity Centre of India | 2 | |
| All India Gorkha League | 1 | |
| Republican Party of India | 1 | |
| Independent | 78 | |
| # | Constituency Name | Electors | Poll Date | Valid Votes | Voters | Poll % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | 570,556 | 16 March 1977 | 350,184 | 363,908 | 63.78% |
| 2 | Alipurduars (ST) | 523,297 | 295,162 | 312,975 | 59.81% | |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | 529,606 | 302,981 | 315,866 | 59.64% | |
| 4 | Darjeeling | 624,898 | 261,953 | 272,135 | 43.55% | |
| 5 | Raiganj | 563,672 | 336,476 | 347,199 | 61.60% | |
| 6 | Balurghat (SC) | 557,919 | 357,661 | 369,396 | 66.21% | |
| 7 | Malda | 550,001 | 358,965 | 368,914 | 67.08% | |
| 8 | Jangipur | 565,255 | 317,291 | 328,222 | 58.07% | |
| 9 | Murshidabad | 587,057 | 351,915 | 363,744 | 61.96% | |
| 10 | Berhampore | 645,013 | 380,587 | 391,275 | 60.66% | |
| 11 | Krishnanagar | 534,845 | 321,433 | 331,367 | 61.96% | |
| 12 | Nabadwip (SC) | 635,456 | 360,854 | 371,933 | 58.53% | |
| 13 | Barasat | 609,986 | 362,741 | 372,416 | 61.05% | |
| 14 | Basirhat | 583,782 | 342,228 | 351,244 | 60.17% | |
| 15 | Jaynagar (SC) | 626,050 | 369,183 | 380,213 | 60.73% | |
| 16 | Mathurapur (SC) | 601,885 | 387,518 | 397,485 | 66.04% | |
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | 608,458 | 379,376 | 389,100 | 63.95% | |
| 18 | Jadavpur | 624,264 | 347,144 | 356,636 | 57.13% | |
| 19 | Barrackpore | 650,725 | 457,519 | 470,018 | 72.23% | |
| 20 | Dum Dum | 698,781 | 422,006 | 431,362 | 61.73% | |
| 21 | Kolkata North West | 595,840 | 313,880 | 321,742 | 54.00% | |
| 22 | Kolkata North East | 641,747 | 352,141 | 361,255 | 56.29% | |
| 23 | Kolkata South | 654,202 | 388,354 | 398,561 | 60.92% | |
| 24 | Howrah | 669,642 | 377,239 | 389,263 | 58.13% | |
| 25 | Uluberia | 610,328 | 395,826 | 404,839 | 66.33% | |
| 26 | Serampore | 628,219 | 380,327 | 392,237 | 62.44% | |
| 27 | Hooghly | 560,707 | 357,512 | 367,205 | 65.49% | |
| 28 | Arambagh | 580,700 | 389,305 | 398,708 | 68.66% | |
| 29 | Panskura | 519,863 | 363,271 | 373,170 | 71.78% | |
| 30 | Tamluk | 603,246 | 412,155 | 421,330 | 69.84% | |
| 31 | Contai | 581,866 | 380,162 | 388,122 | 66.70% | |
| 32 | Midnapore | 578,798 | 325,998 | 338,254 | 58.44% | |
| 33 | Jhargram (ST) | 575,907 | 344,059 | 358,585 | 62.26% | |
| 34 | Purulia | 582,892 | 294,143 | 303,660 | 52.10% | |
| 35 | Bankura | 603,383 | 307,940 | 320,481 | 53.11% | |
| 36 | Vishnupur (SC) | 601,160 | 363,103 | 376,332 | 62.60% | |
| 37 | Durgapur (SC) | 677,500 | 346,235 | 359,280 | 53.03% | |
| 38 | Asansol | 647,254 | 276,773 | 287,229 | 44.38% | |
| 39 | Burdwan | 638,853 | 354,473 | 363,202 | 56.85% | |
| 40 | Katwa | 575,293 | 360,300 | 369,898 | 64.30% | |
| 41 | Bolpur | 550,289 | 256,932 | 266,128 | 48.36% | |
| 42 | Birbhum (SC) | 553,221 | 278,604 | 288,116 | 52.08% |
| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| JP+ | CPI(M) | 38,39,091 | 26.15 |  8.14 | 20 | 17 | 3 | ||
| JP | 31,51,318 | 21.46 |  | 15 | 15 | | |||
| AIFB | 6,31,200 | 4.30 |  1.60 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| RSP | 5,78,786 | 3.94 | 1.90 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||
| IND | 1,73,484 | 1.18 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 83,73,879 | 57.03 | | 42 | 39 | | |||
| INC | INC | 43,12,418 | 29.37 | 1.17 | 34 | 3 | 10 | ||
| CPI | 9,52,997 | 6.49 | 4.05 | 8 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Total | 52,65,415 | 35.86 | | 42 | 3 | | |||
| Others | 2,22,649 | 1.52 | | 9 | 0 | | |||
| IND | 8,19,966 | 5.58 | | 78 | 0 | | |||
| Total | 1,46,81,909 | 100% | - | 171 | 42 | - | |||
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | Amrendranath Roy Pradhan | AIFB | 2,26,521 | 64.69 | Benoy Krishna Daschowdhury | INC | 1,23,663 | 35.31 | 1,02,858 | 29.38 | ||
| 2 | Alipurduars (ST) | Pius Tirkey | RSP | 1,67,865 | 56.87 | Tuna Oraon | INC | 1,27,297 | 43.13 | 40,568 | 13.74 | ||
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | Khagendra Nath Dasgupta | IND | 1,73,484 | 57.26 | Maya Ray | INC | 1,15,786 | 38.22 | 57,698 | 19.04 | ||
| 4 | Darjeeling | Krishna Bahadur Chettri | INC | 1,09,520 | 41.81 | Ratanlal Brahman | CPI(M) | 91,040 | 34.75 | 18,480 | 7.06 | ||
| 5 | Raiganj | Md. Hayat Ali | JP | 1,88,694 | 56.08 | Abedin Anowarul | INC | 1,21,570 | 36.13 | 67,124 | 19.95 | ||
| 6 | Balurghat (SC) | Palas Barman | RSP | 2,06,112 | 57.63 | Rasendra Nath Burman | INC | 1,51,549 | 42.37 | 54,563 | 15.26 | ||
| 7 | Malda | Dinesh Chandra Joardar | CPI(M) | 1,88,103 | 52.40 | Pranab Kumar Mukherjee | INC | 1,58,395 | 44.13 | 29,708 | 8.27 | ||
| 8 | Jangipur | Sasankasekher Sanyal | CPI(M) | 1,55,008 | 48.85 | Lutfal Haque (Haji) | INC | 1,52,822 | 48.16 | 2,186 | 0.69 | ||
| 9 | Murshidabad | Syed Kazim Ali Meerza | JP | 1,40,927 | 40.05 | Azizur Rahman | INC | 1,04,838 | 29.79 | 36,089 | 10.26 | ||
| 10 | Berhampore | Tridip Chaudhuri | RSP | 2,04,809 | 53.81 | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | INC | 1,02,629 | 26.97 | 1,02,180 | 26.84 | ||
| 11 | Krishnagar | Renupada Das | CPI(M) | 1,98,830 | 61.86 | Shibsankar Bandyopadhayay | INC | 1,07,462 | 33.43 | 91,368 | 28.43 | ||
| 12 | Nabadwip (SC) | Bibha Ghosh (Goswami) | CPI(M) | 1,93,714 | 53.68 | Nitaipada Sarkar | CPI | 1,06,428 | 29.49 | 87,286 | 24.19 | ||
| 13 | Barasat | Chitta Basu | AIFB | 2,03,694 | 56.15 | Ranen Sen | CPI | 87,900 | 24.23 | 1,15,794 | 31.92 | ||
| 14 | Basirhat | Alhaj M.A. Hannan | JP | 1,68,644 | 49.28 | A.K.M. Ishaque | INC | 1,56,458 | 45.72 | 12,186 | 3.56 | ||
| 15 | Joynagar (SC) | Sakti Kumar Sarkar | JP | 1,80,587 | 48.92 | Nirmal Kanti Mondal | INC | 1,19,950 | 32.49 | 60,637 | 16.43 | ||
| 16 | Mathurapur (SC) | Mukunda Kumar Mondal | CPI(M) | 1,88,227 | 48.57 | Purnendu Sekhar Naskar | INC | 1,46,635 | 37.84 | 41,592 | 10.73 | ||
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | Jyotirmoy Basu | CPI(M) | 2,67,890 | 70.61 | Biren Mahanti | INC | 1,11,486 | 29.39 | 1,56,404 | 41.22 | ||
| 18 | Jadavpur | Somnath Chatterjee | CPI(M) | 2,36,085 | 68.01 | Mohammad Elias | CPI | 97,450 | 28.07 | 1,38,635 | 39.94 | ||
| 19 | Barrackpore | Sougata Roy | INC | 2,95,551 | 64.60 | Mahammad Ismail | CPI(M) | 1,54,537 | 33.78 | 1,41,014 | 30.82 | ||
| 20 | Dum Dum | Asoke Krishna Dutt | JP | 2,15,766 | 51.13 | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 1,93,986 | 45.97 | 21,780 | 5.16 | ||
| 21 | Calcutta North West | Bijoy Singh Nahar | JP | 1,79,681 | 57.25 | Ashoke Kumar Sen | INC | 1,10,048 | 35.06 | 69,633 | 22.19 | ||
| 22 | Calcutta North East | Pratap Chandra Chunder | JP | 2,37,787 | 67.53 | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | CPI | 1,08,028 | 30.68 | 1,29,759 | 36.85 | ||
| 23 | Calcutta South | Dilip Chakravarty | JP | 2,25,556 | 58.08 | Priya Ranjan Das Munshi | INC | 1,57,616 | 40.59 | 67,940 | 17.49 | ||
| 24 | Howrah | Samar Mukherjee | CPI(M) | 2,36,530 | 62.70 | Nityananda Dey | INC | 1,31,799 | 34.94 | 1,04,731 | 27.76 | ||
| 25 | Uluberia | Shyamaprasanna Bhattacharyya | CPI(M) | 2,25,583 | 56.99 | Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee | INC | 1,11,084 | 28.06 | 1,14,499 | 28.93 | ||
| 26 | Serampore | Dinen Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | 2,60,071 | 68.38 | Jadu Gopal Sen | CPI | 1,20,256 | 31.62 | 1,39,815 | 36.76 | ||
| 27 | Hooghly | Bijoy Krishna Modak | CPI(M) | 2,23,818 | 62.60 | Bishnu Charan Banerjee | INC | 1,17,559 | 32.88 | 1,06,259 | 29.72 | ||
| 28 | Arambagh | Prafulla Chandra Sen | JP | 2,98,371 | 76.64 | Santi Mohan Roy | INC | 90,934 | 23.36 | 2,07,437 | 53.28 | ||
| 29 | Panskura | Abha Maiti | JP | 2,30,704 | 63.51 | Phulrenu Guha | INC | 1,32,567 | 36.49 | 98,137 | 27.02 | ||
| 30 | Tamluk | Sushil Kumar Dhara | JP | 2,54,049 | 61.64 | Satis Chandra Samanta | INC | 1,35,474 | 32.87 | 1,18,575 | 28.77 | ||
| 31 | Contai | Guha Samar | JP | 2,84,509 | 74.84 | Sudhangshu Panda | INC | 89,995 | 23.67 | 1,94,514 | 51.17 | ||
| 32 | Midnapore | Ghosal Sudhir Kumar | JP | 1,80,061 | 55.23 | Choubey Narayan | CPI | 1,45,937 | 44.77 | 34,124 | 10.46 | ||
| 33 | Jhargram (ST) | Jadunath Kisku | CPI(M) | 1,59,433 | 46.34 | Amiya Kumar Kisku | INC | 1,11,838 | 32.51 | 47,595 | 13.83 | ||
| 34 | Purulia | Chittaranjan Mahata | AIFB | 2,00,985 | 68.33 | Pashupati Mahato | INC | 84,433 | 28.70 | 1,16,552 | 39.63 | ||
| 35 | Bankura | Mondal Bijoy | JP | 1,75,664 | 57.04 | Shankar Narayan Singh Deo | INC | 95,587 | 31.04 | 80,077 | 26.00 | ||
| 36 | Vishnupur (SC) | Ajit Kumar Saha | CPI(M) | 2,44,370 | 67.30 | Gour Chandra Lohar | INC | 1,13,996 | 31.39 | 1,30,374 | 35.91 | ||
| 37 | Durgapur (SC) | Krishna Chandra Haldar | CPI(M) | 2,18,833 | 63.20 | Manoranjan Pramanik | INC | 1,27,402 | 36.80 | 91,431 | 26.40 | ||
| 38 | Asansol | Robin Sen | CPI(M) | 1,63,492 | 59.07 | Syed Mohammad Jalal | INC | 91,265 | 32.97 | 72,227 | 26.10 | ||
| 39 | Burdwan | Raj Krishna Dawn | JP | 1,90,318 | 53.69 | Shyama Prasad Kundu | INC | 1,19,315 | 33.66 | 71,003 | 20.03 | ||
| 40 | Katwa | Dhirendra Nath Basu | INC | 1,79,927 | 49.94 | Syed Mansur Habibullah | CPI(M) | 1,68,047 | 46.64 | 11,880 | 3.30 | ||
| 41 | Bolpur | Saradish Roy | CPI(M) | 1,28,963 | 50.19 | Durga Banerjee | CPI | 93,012 | 36.20 | 35,951 | 13.99 | ||
| 42 | Birbhum (SC) | Gadadhar Saha | CPI(M) | 1,36,517 | 49.00 | Birendaban Saha | INC | 1,05,968 | 38.04 | 30,549 | 10.96 | ||
| # | Name | Constituency | Designation | Department | From | To | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Calcutta North East | Cabinet Minister | Education, Social Welfare and Culture | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | JP | |
| 2 | Saugata Roy | Barrackpore | Minister of State | Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilizers | 4 August 1979 | 14 January 1980 | INC(U) | |
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