Constituency
510. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-PURULIA
INC 51.8%won by 30.2%LSS 21.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.3% to 51.8% of the vote here (+18.5%).
- New challengerLSS (LSS) finished second with 21.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.4% between them, down from 78.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.2% to 46.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,39,571
Turnout
46.6%
Valid votes
2,51,453
Margin
76,043
30.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DEBENDRA NATH MAHATAIndian National Congress · INC1,30,26451.8%
- 2BHAJAHARI MAHATOLSS · LSS54,22121.6%
- 3NITYA RANJAN KUMBHAKARNCO · NCO23,9709.5%
- 4SURESWAR SAHUFBL · FBL22,9949.1%
- 5LAKHAN CHANDRA MAHATOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,4584.6%
- 6TIKARAM MAJHIJan Kalyan Party · JKP8,5463.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LSS swing
- −3.1%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 51.8%
- LSS share
- 0.0% → 21.6%
- Turnout
- 51.8% → 46.6%