1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
14 June 1977
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 Did not contest
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
Alliance seats 231 29 20
Seat change New alliance New party 196
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. 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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