Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Purulia Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Bir Sing Mahato of FBL won with 3,75,559 votes, defeating Gobinda Mukherjee of INC, who received 2,65,689 votes. Bir Sing Mahato won by a margin of 1,09,870 votes, equivalent to 14.93% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 7,36,106.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
FBL
3,75,559
51.02%
2,65,689
36.09%
64,141
8.71%
17,839
2.42%
IND
4,727
0.64%
JKP
2,544
0.35%
JMM(M)
2,019
0.27%
IND
2,016
0.27%
IND
1,572
0.21%