BJP candidate Jyotirmay Singh Mahato won the Lok Sabha Election 2024 from the Purulia Lok Sabha constituency with a total of 17,079 vote margin. The AITC candidate Shantiram Mahato was declared as the runner-up candidate.

Jyotirmay Singh Mahato held the position of State General Secretary for the BJP’s West Bengal branch. He holds a law degree (LLB) from Sambalpur University’s Raurkela Law College. In 2000, Mahato became a member of the student branch of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), known as the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). After that, he joined the BJP and ran for office in the 2016 assembly elections, coming in third.

Purulia Lok Sabha constituency has been an AIFB stronghold with Trinamool Congress candidate Mriganko Mahato winning the seat in 2014. In that year AIFB candidate Narahari Mahato and Congress candidate Nepal Mahato secured the second and third positions.

In 2019, the BJP candidate Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato won the elections with 49.33 percent votes. However, the TMC candidate lost the election after securing 34.19 percent votes. The INC and AIFB came third and fourth with 6.23% and 5.05% votes respectively.

This year Trinamool Congress fielded Santiram Mahato, INC to Nepal Mahato, and AIFB to Dhirendra Nath Mahato to contest the Lok Sabha Election 2024.