Constituency
226. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1971
WB-PURULIA
INC 46.5%won by 15.9%LSS 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: LSS (LSS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.2% to 46.5% of the vote here (+19.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
36,630
Margin
5,820
15.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SAAT KUMAR MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC17,05046.5%
- 2BIBHUTI BHUSAN DASGUPTALSS · LSS11,23030.7%
- 3PRABIR KUMAR MALICKCommunist Party of India · CPI4,39512.0%
- 4RAGHUNATH SINGHIndependent · IND2,4476.7%
- 5CHATTOPADHAYA NARANARAYANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,5084.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- LSS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LSS swing
- +51.7%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 46.5%
- LSS share
- 63.1% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —