Constituency
487. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PURULIA
LSS 41.8%won by 4.5%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to LSS (LSS), which now leads by 4.5%.
- LSS vote shareLSS went from 0.0% to 41.8% of the vote here (+41.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,28,535
Turnout
38.1%
Valid votes
1,63,476
Margin
7,413
4.53%
Candidates
3 contested · winner LSS- 1BHAJAHARI MAHATOLSS · LSS68,29541.8%
- 2SAGAR CHANDRA MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC60,88237.2%
- 3PRABIR KUMAR MALLIKCommunist Party of India · CPI34,29921.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- LSSflipped
- LSS–INC swing
- +47.3%
- LSS share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 36.2% → 38.1%