Constituency
536. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2024
IN-PURULIA
BJP 40.3%won by 1.2%AITC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.1% to 1.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
14,34,018
Margin
17,079
1.19%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1JYOTIRMAY SINGH MAHATOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,78,48940.3%
- 2SHANTIRAM MAHATOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC5,61,41039.1%
- 3NEPAL CHANDRA MAHATOIndian National Congress · INC1,29,1579.0%
- 4AJIT PRASAD MAHATAIndependent · IND98,6586.9%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA17,9291.3%
- 6DHIRENDRANATH MAHATOAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB14,5721.0%
- 7SONTOSH RAJOWARDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,7600.5%
- 8SUSMITA MAHATOSUCOI · SUCOI6,1090.4%
- 9GORISH ROYIndependent · IND4,8090.3%
- 10BHAGWAT DASS SHASTRIIndependent · IND4,5120.3%
- 11ASIT BARAN MAHATOPFDS · PFDS3,8770.3%
- 12PIJUSH KANTI RAJAKIndependent · IND3,4180.2%
- 13AJIT MAHATOIndependent · IND3,3180.2%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- −13.9%
- BJP share
- 49.3% → 40.3%
- AITC share
- 34.2% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 82.3% → —