Constituency
226. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1969
WB-PURULIA
LSS 63.1%won by 35.9%INC 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to LSS (LSS), which now leads by 35.9%.
- LSS vote shareLSS went from 0.0% to 63.1% of the vote here (+63.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.3% of the vote between them, up from 77.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
36,848
Margin
13,214
35.86%
Candidates
4 contested · winner LSS- 1BIBHUTI BHUSAN DAS GUPTALSS · LSS23,24063.1%
- 2SUDARSAN MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC10,02627.2%
- 3MOHAMMAD KHALILIndependent · IND1,8325.0%
- 4ABID HUSSAINLKD · LKD1,7504.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- LSSflipped
- LSS–INC swing
- +64.7%
- LSS share
- 0.0% → 63.1%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —