Purulia #34GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Chitta Ranjan Mahata

AIFB All India Forward Bloc

Margin

1,04,892 24.6 pp

votes

over Ram Pada Singha (INCI)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors6,97,320

Votes polled4,26,779

Turnout61.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.56 L51.1% of electorate

Female electors3.41 L48.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 957females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Chitta Ranjan Mahata	AIFB	2,27,453	53.30%
2	Ram Pada Singha	INCI	1,22,561	28.70%
3	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	INCU	42,529	10.00%
4	Dey Nirmalendu	JP	11,322	2.70%
5	Gomosta Prasad Saron	JP	4,875	1.10%
6	Amulya Mahato	IND	2,672	0.60%
7	Sarit Kumar Chakraborty	IND	2,259	0.50%
8	Radharaman Ghosh	IND	1,539	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,569, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 415,210 · NOTA n/a · published 426,779 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980