Constituency
513. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-PURULIA
FBL 27.8%won by 1.6%FBL 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.5% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.0% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.5% to 71.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,14,959
Turnout
71.3%
Valid votes
12,82,123
Margin
20,499
1.60%
Candidates
18 contested · winner FBL- 1B.MAHATOFBL · FBL3,56,60427.8%
- 2CHITTA RANJAN MAHATAFBL · FBL3,36,10526.2%
- 3K.P.S.DEOIndian National Congress · INC2,22,86817.4%
- 4SANAT MUKHERJEEIndian National Congress · INC2,10,16516.4%
- 5SURJA NARAIAYN MAHATOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM62,9414.9%
- 6A.P.MAHATAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM43,3003.4%
- 7GHANSHYAM MAHATABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,1152.0%
- 8PURNA CHANDRA MAHATOIndependent · IND4,2610.3%
- 9SITARAM MAJHIIndependent · IND4,0480.3%
- 10SWAPAN GHOSHIndependent · IND3,0600.2%
- 11G.P. SORENIndependent · IND2,8630.2%
- 12A.R.MAHATAIndependent · IND2,7230.2%
- 13GOMASTA PRASAD SORENJan Kalyan Party · JKP2,0660.2%
- 14SARBESWAR MAHATOJanahitha Paksha · JP1,7420.1%
- 15SUDHIR YADAVDDP · DDP1,6690.1%
- 16N.GOPEDDP · DDP1,4620.1%
- 17SUKUMAR DASIndependent · IND7470.1%
- 18SARIT KUMAR CHAKRABORYHMS · HMS3840.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–FBL swing
- 0.0%
- FBL share
- 56.0% → 27.8%
- FBL share
- 56.0% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- 75.8% → 71.3%