Purulia #34GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Bir Sing Mahato

AIFB All India Forward Bloc

Margin

1,09,870 14.3 pp

votes

over Gobinda Mukherjee (INC)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors9,67,200

Votes polled7,65,833

Turnout79.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.88 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors4.79 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 981females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Bir Sing Mahato	AIFB	3,75,559	49.00%
2	Gobinda Mukherjee	INC	2,65,689	34.70%
3	Mahato Surya Narayan	JMM	64,141	8.40%
4	Mohan Lal Choube	BJP	17,839	2.30%
5	Bhusan Mahato	IND	4,727	0.60%
6	Gomasta Prasad Soren	JP	2,544	0.30%
7	Sunil Kumar Mahato	JMMM	2,019	0.30%
8	Sarit Kumar Chakraborty	IND	2,016	0.30%
9	Sukumar Das	IND	1,572	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,727, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 736,106 · NOTA n/a · published 765,833 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996