Constituency
239. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-PURULIA
CPM 42.8%won by 17.9%IND 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 17.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.1% to 42.8% of the vote here (+8.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
43,353
Margin
7,776
17.94%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHADEB MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,54042.8%
- 2SANAT KUMAR MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND10,76424.8%
- 3DHIRENDRA NATH BHATTACHARYYAJanata Party · JNP5,91113.6%
- 4SHYAM MAHATOIndependent · IND4,33810.0%
- 5KALPANA KHANIndian National Congress · INC2,7346.3%
- 6DEB KUMAR CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND1,0662.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −16.2%
- CPM share
- 34.1% → 42.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —