Constituency
242. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-PURULIA
AITC 53.9%won by 17.1%CPM 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 17.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 6.4% to 53.9% of the vote here (+47.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 36.8% — it did not contest here in 2006.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,93,014
Turnout
80.1%
Valid votes
1,54,589
Margin
26,487
17.13%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1K.P. SINGH DEOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC83,39653.9%
- 2KAUSHIK MAZUMDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,90936.8%
- 3PANCH KARI MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,6302.3%
- 4SANAT SAOPDS · PDS2,7051.7%
- 5SOHAN RAJOWARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,3861.5%
- 6DHIREN RAJAKIndependent · IND2,2411.4%
- 7NAREN SAHISAJSU · AJSU1,9151.2%
- 8THURU MAHATOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4070.9%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPIM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +10.8%
- AITC share
- 6.4% → 53.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- — → 80.1%