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Indian National Congress on Purulia

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

WON 0 OF 11 contested

INC runner-up 6 times
Strike rate
0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures
Best vote share43.00%in 1984
Worst vote share4.80%in 1999
Average vote share23.23% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1977
Last contested2024
Votes polled here19.4 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Indian National Congress 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

Indian National Congress 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: 1980, 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

11 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Nepal Chandra Mahato 1,29,157 9.00% 3 Lost · 3rd
2019 Nepal Mahata 84,477 6.20% 3 Lost · 3rd
2014 Nepal Mahata 2,57,923 21.40% 3 Lost · 3rd
2009 Shantiram Mahato 3,79,900 42.00% 2 Lost · 2nd
1999 Bula Chatterjee 35,512 4.80% 3 Lost · 3rd
1998 Kashinath Misra 74,145 9.70% 3 Lost · 3rd
1996 Gouri Sankar Dey 1,91,415 24.70% 2 Lost · 2nd
1991 Brajabasi Biswas 1,91,435 28.00% 2 Lost · 2nd
1989 Ashis Chakrabarty 2,56,689 36.90% 2 Lost · 2nd
1984 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya 2,43,920 43.00% 2 Lost · 2nd
1977 Shankar Narayan Singh Deo 95,587 29.80% 2 Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bharatiya Janta PartyAll India Forward BlocAll India Trinamool CongressBharatiya Lok DalIndependentIndian 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 22:59 UTC

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