Constituency
239. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-PURULIA
CPIM 50.0%won by 12.7%INC 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 12.7%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 50.0% of the vote here (+50.0%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 37.3% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.3% between them, down from 92.8% — 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
1,25,627
Margin
16,002
12.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPIM- 1NIKHIL MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM62,85450.0%
- 2DR.SUKUMAR ROYIndian National Congress · INC46,85237.3%
- 3BARIK CHANDRA MAHATOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC7,9986.4%
- 4PRANATI BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND4,1113.3%
- 5PELARAM MAHATOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1481.7%
- 6DHIREN CHANDRA RAJAKJKPN · JKPN1,6641.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–INC swing
- +12.7%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- — → —