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535. Purulia

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-PURULIA

FBL 51.5%won by 25.7%BJP 25.9%

What changed here

Derived

FBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.4% to 25.7%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 6.2% to 67.6%.

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

Electorate
10,08,066
Turnout
67.6%
Valid votes
6,81,196
Margin
1,74,870
25.67%

Candidates

9 contested · winner FBL
  1. 1Birsingh MahatoFBL · FBL3,51,14351.5%
  2. 2Tapati MahatoBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,76,27325.9%
  3. 3Nepal MahataIndian National Congress · INC1,39,34520.5%
  4. 4Ram Chandra MahatoIndependent · IND3,9260.6%
  5. 5Pranati BhattacharyaIndependent · IND3,4690.5%
  6. 6Prafulla Kumar MahatoAMB · AMB2,7130.4%
  7. 7Gomasta Prasad SorenJan Kalyan Party · JKP2,5740.4%
  8. 8Sachinandan SauNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,3100.2%
  9. 9Shyam Chand BauriIndependent · IND4430.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
FBL
FBL–BJP swing
−12.2%
FBL share
51.3% → 51.5%
BJP share
13.3% → 25.9%
Turnout
73.8% → 67.6%
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