Constituency
226. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-PURULIA
IND 48.5%won by 19.7%INC 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 19.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.7% to 48.5% of the vote here (+46.9%).
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
38,333
Margin
7,545
19.68%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1B . B . D . GUPTAIndependent · IND18,60748.5%
- 2T . P . ROYIndian National Congress · INC11,06228.9%
- 3U . C . MAHTCIndependent · IND3,1178.1%
- 4J . N . MAHATOIndependent · IND1,9415.1%
- 5A . K . KABIRAJBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,4823.9%
- 6B . K . SARKARIndependent · IND7832.0%
- 7K . MAHATOIndependent · IND7471.9%
- 8S . K . MAHTOIndependent · IND4681.2%
- 9L . K . MAHATOIndependent · IND1260.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +64.2%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 48.5%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —