Constituency
239. Purulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-PURULIA
CPM 48.8%won by 4.7%AITC 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 4.7%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
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
1,17,115
Margin
5,509
4.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NIKHIL MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,12448.8%
- 2KAMAKSHYA PRASAD SINGH DEOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC51,61544.1%
- 3GOBINDA MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,4273.8%
- 4PRABIR MAHATOIndependent · IND2,2331.9%
- 5DHIREN RAJAKJKPN · JKPN1,7161.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −43.4%
- CPM share
- 48.1% → 48.8%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —