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Bharatiya Janta Party on Purulia

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 2 OF 7 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time
Strike rate
28.6%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures
Best vote share49.30%in 2019
Worst vote share2.40%in 2009
Average vote share20.96% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1991
Last contested2024
Votes polled here17.12 Lacross all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Purulia, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 50 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Bharatiya Janta Party 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, 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

7 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Jyotirmay Singh Mahato 5,78,489 40.30% 1 Won
2019 Jyotirmay Singh Mahato 6,68,107 49.30% 1 Won
2014 Bikash Banerjee 86,236 7.20% 4 Lost · 4th
2009 Sayantan Basu 21,509 2.40% 4 Lost · 4th
1998 Sukumar Banerjee 2,58,112 33.70% 2 Lost · 2nd
1996 Gunamoy Chattopadhyay 40,213 5.20% 4 Lost · 4th
1991 Gunamoy Chatterjee 58,978 8.60% 3 Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)All India Forward BlocAll India Trinamool CongressBharatiya Lok DalIndependentIndian National CongressIndian National Congress (I)Jharkhand Mukti MorchaSocialist Unity Centre Of IndiaParty For Democratic SocialismBahujan Samaj PartyShiv SenaSocialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Janta PartyAmara BengaliDoordarshi PartyJanta Party (SECULAR)Jharkhand DalSamajwadi PartyBharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha PartyJharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)Jharkhand Disom PartyBharateeya Manavadhikar PartyBhatiya Krishi Udyog SanghJharkhand Mukti Morcha (MARDI)Amra BangaleeJanata Dal (United)Mulnibasi Party Of India

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Purulia
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 18:48 UTC

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