All India Forward Bloc on Purulia

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 4 contested

AIFB runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

25%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share44.10%in 2009

Worst vote share1.00%in 2024

Average vote share19.05% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested2009

Last contested2024

Votes polled here7.97 Lacross all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

All India Forward Bloc vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Dhirendranath Mahato	14,572	1.00%	5	Lost · 5th
2019	Bir Singh Mahato	68,434	5.00%	4	Lost · 4th
2014	Narahari Mahato	3,14,400	26.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Narahari Mahato	3,99,201	44.10%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bharatiya Janta Party All India Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Lok Dal Independent Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Socialist Unity Centre Of India Party For Democratic Socialism Bahujan Samaj Party Shiv Sena Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Janta Party Amara Bengali Doordarshi Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Jharkhand Dal Samajwadi Party Bharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha Party Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)Jharkhand Disom Party Bharateeya Manavadhikar Party Bhatiya Krishi Udyog Sangh Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (MARDI)Amra Bangalee Janata Dal (United)Mulnibasi Party Of India