1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Jyoti Basu Prafulla Chandra Sen Purabi Mukhopadhyay Party CPI(M) JP INC(R) Alliance LF Leader since 1964 1977 1977 Leader's seat Satgachhia Did not contest[b] Did not contest[a] Last election 27.45%, 14 seats New 49.08%, 216 seats Seats won 178 29 20 Seat change 164 New 196 Popular vote 6,568,999 2,869,391 3,298,063 Percentage 35.46% 20.02% 23.02% Swing 8.01 pp New 26.06 pp
Chief Minister before election Siddhartha Shankar Ray INC Chief Minister after election Jyoti Basu CPI(M)

Legislative Assembly elections was held in the Indian state of West Bengal on 14 June 1977.^[1] The polls took place after the ousting of Indira Gandhi's government at the Centre.

The Left Front won a landslide victory. The 1977 election marked the beginning of the 34-year Left Front rule in West Bengal, with Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Jyoti Basu leading the first Left Front cabinet. The election finally put to rest, the decade-long political instability that had begun since 1967.

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