Constituency
242. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-PURULIA
INC 44.6%won by 2.7%AITC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 44.6% of the vote here (+44.6%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,27,703
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
1,82,528
Margin
4,911
2.69%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1SUDIP KUMAR MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC81,36544.6%
- 2DIBYAJYOTI PRASAD SINGH DEOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC76,45441.9%
- 3NAGENDRA KUMAR OJHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,7577.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9741.6%
- 5SWAPAN KUMAR MAHATOIndependent · IND2,1621.2%
- 6THURU MAHATOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5110.8%
- 7DHIREN RAJAKIndependent · IND1,1990.7%
- 8UPENDRA NATH MAHATOMPOI · MPOI1,0040.6%
- 9DHIRENDRA NATH RAJAKAJSUP · AJSUP6960.4%
- 10BINAY MAHATOIndependent · IND6510.4%
- 11SUBRATA MUKHERJEESUCI · SUCI6420.4%
- 12ALOK PANCHARIAIndependent · IND6250.3%
- 13ANITA MAHATOIndependent · IND4880.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AITC swing
- +56.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 44.6%
- AITC share
- 53.9% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 80.1% → 80.2%