Constituency
536. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-PURULIA
AIFB 44.1%won by 2.1%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Forward Bloc held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.9% to 2.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,57,799
Turnout
71.9%
Valid votes
9,04,518
Margin
19,301
2.13%
Candidates
14 contested · winner AIFB- 1NARAHARI MAHATOAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB3,99,20144.1%
- 2SHANTIRAM MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC3,79,90042.0%
- 3AJIT PRASAD MAHATOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM30,7993.4%
- 4SAYANTAN BASUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,5092.4%
- 5ASIT BARAN MAHATOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,4992.3%
- 6MRITYUNJAY MAHATOIndependent · IND15,7161.7%
- 7MUKESH SAHUIndependent · IND9,1831.0%
- 8BISAMBAR MURAIndependent · IND8,7391.0%
- 9ABHIRAM BESRAJDP · JDP6,8570.8%
- 10ABINASH SARENAMB · AMB2,9420.3%
- 11DHIREN RAJAKIndependent · IND2,8760.3%
- 12AMULYA RATAN MAHATOIndependent · IND2,3540.3%
- 13DHIREN CHANDRA MAHATOJanata Dal (United) · JDU2,0800.2%
- 14UMACHARAN MAHATOIndependent · IND1,8630.2%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AIFB
- Winner now
- AIFB
- AIFB–INC swing
- −18.8%
- AIFB share
- 49.0% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- 70.2% → 71.9%