Purulia is constituency No. 242 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in Purulia district and comes under the Lok Sabha constituency that goes by the same name. It is an open constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has a total of 1,93,014 registered voters. It comprises 1,01,139 male and 91,875 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) won this seat by 26,487 votes. K.P. Singh Deo, the winning candidate, bagged 83,396 votes. The runner-up was Kaushik Mazumdar of CPI(M) who got 56,909 votes. The voter turnout was 80.21 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Purulia Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Purulia assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	242	Purulia	GEN	K.P. Singh Deo	M	AITC	83396	Kaushik Mazumdar	M	CPM	56909
2006	239	Purulia	GEN	Nikhil Mukherjee	M	CPI(M)	62854	Dr.Sukumar Roy	M	INC	46852
2001	239	Purulia	GEN	Nikhil Mukherjee	M	CPM	57124	Kamakshya Prasad Singh Deo	M	AITC	51615
1996	239	Purulia	GEN	Mamata Mukherjee	F	CPM	59120	Sukumar Roy	M	INC	56738
1991	239	Purulia	GEN	Mamata Mukherjee	F	CPM	53415	Sukumar Roy	M	INC	45487
1987	239	Purulia	GEN	Mamata Mukherjee	F	CPM	47530	Sukumar Roy	M	INC	42004
1982	239	Purulia	GEN	Sukumar Roy	M	ICS	39978	Mahadeb Mukherjee	M	CPM	32836
1977	239	Purulia	GEN	Mahadeb Mukherjee	M	CPM	18540	Sanat Kumar Mukherjee	M	IND	10764
1972	226	Purulia	GEN	Sanat Kumar Mukherjee	M	INC	23098	Mahadeb Mukherjee	M	CPM	11978
1971	226	Purulia	GEN	Saat Kumar Mukherjee	M	INC	17050	Bibhuti Bhusan Dasgupta	M	LSS	11230
1969	226	Purulia	GEN	Bibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta	M	LSS	23240	Sudarsan Mahata	M	INC	10026
1967	226	Purulia	GEN	B . B . D . Gupta	M	IND	18607	T . P . Roy	M	INC	11062
1962	204	Purulia	GEN	Tara Pada Roy	M	INC	13588	Bibhuti Bhushan Das Gupta	M	LSS	9699
1957	68	Purulia	(SC)	Labanya Prava Ghosh	M	IND	19280	Sarat Das (Sc)	M	INC	11019
1957	68	Purulia	(SC)	Nakul Chandra Sahis (Sc)	M	IND	15780	Tara Pada Roy	M	INC	10901

Last Updated on May 13, 2016