Constituency
521. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-PURULIA
FBL 54.8%won by 25.3%INCI 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.6% to 25.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.1% to 59.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,97,320
Turnout
59.5%
Valid votes
4,15,210
Margin
1,04,892
25.26%
Candidates
8 contested · winner FBL- 1CHITTA RANJAN MAHATAFBL · FBL2,27,45354.8%
- 2RAM PADA SINGHAINCI · INCI1,22,56129.5%
- 3PRIYA RANJAN DAS MUNSHIINCU · INCU42,52910.2%
- 4DEY NIRMALENDUJanata Party · JNP11,3222.7%
- 5GOMOSTA PRASAD SARONJKD · JKD4,8751.2%
- 6AMULYA MAHATOIndependent · IND2,6720.6%
- 7SARIT KUMAR CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND2,2590.5%
- 8RADHARAMAN GHOSHIndependent · IND1,5390.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INCI swing
- −43.1%
- FBL share
- 68.3% → 54.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- 50.5% → 59.5%