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242. Purulia

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026

WB-PURULIA

BJP 55.7%won by 21.4%AITC 34.3%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 21.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
2,30,653
Margin
49,253
21.35%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1SUDIP KUMAR MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,28,45455.7%
  2. 2SUJOY BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC79,20134.3%
  3. 3SAYANTAN GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,6754.6%
  4. 4DIBYAJYOTI PRASAD SINGH DEOIndian National Congress · INC4,3671.9%
  5. 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,7280.7%
  6. 6SHOBHA MAHATOSUCOI · SUCOI1,3350.6%
  7. 7MATHAN CHANDRA MAHATOBMP · BMP9080.4%
  8. 8DHIREN RAJAKBMP · BMP9000.4%
  9. 9PINTU BAURIIndependent · IND6390.3%
  10. 10PARTHA BAURIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6110.3%
  11. 11PIJUSH KANTI RAJAKIndependent · IND5860.3%
  12. 12BIDESH CHANDRA PAULRLJP · RLJP5210.2%
  13. 13NAGESWAR MAHATOAB · AB4010.2%
  14. 14NIROD BARAN OJHAPFDS · PFDS3270.1%

Since 2021

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–AITC swing
+18.0%
BJP share
43.4% → 55.7%
AITC share
40.0% → 34.3%
Turnout
79.6% → —
241. Joypur243. Manbazar
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