Purulia #34GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Chittaranjan Mahata

AIFB All India Forward Bloc

Margin

1,16,552 38.4 pp

votes

over Pashupati Mahato (INC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors5,82,892

Votes polled3,03,660

Turnout52.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.05 L52.3% of electorate

Female electors2.78 L47.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 911females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Chittaranjan Mahata	AIFB	2,00,985	66.20%
2	Pashupati Mahato	INC	84,433	27.80%
3	Jairam Majhi	IND	3,532	1.20%
4	Krishnanlal Agrawala	IND	3,229	1.10%
5	Anil Mahata	IND	1,964	0.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,517, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 294,143 · NOTA n/a · published 303,660 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977