Constituency
242. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-PURULIA
BJP 43.4%won by 3.4%AITC 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 7.0% to 43.4% of the vote here (+36.4%).
- 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
2,59,949
Turnout
79.6%
Valid votes
2,06,868
Margin
7,018
3.39%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1Sudip Kumar MukherjeeBharatiya Janata Party · BJP89,73343.4%
- 2Sujoy BanerjeeAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC82,71540.0%
- 3PARTHA PRATIM BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC24,99612.1%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,5881.3%
- 5Birendranath MahatoIndependent · IND1,9180.9%
- 6Aditya MahatoIndependent · IND1,3040.6%
- 7Rani MahatoSUCI · SUCI1,2090.6%
- 8Manas SardarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0340.5%
- 9MRITUNJOY PANDEYIndependent · IND5580.3%
- 10Abhijit BhattacharyaIndependent · IND4240.2%
- 11Harendra Nath MahatoAB · AB3890.2%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–AITC swing
- +38.3%
- BJP share
- 7.0% → 43.4%
- AITC share
- 41.9% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- 80.2% → 79.6%