Elections 98

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Burdwan
Total Votes Polled:	997277
Winner: CPM	Sar Nikhil Ananda	578825
Runner Up: BJP	Prof (Smt) Santi Roy	306572
Margin: 272253 (47%)

Elections 96

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Burdwan
Total Votes Polled:	983515
Winner: CPM	Balai Ray	578279
Runner Up: INC	Ritesh Kumar Dutta	315565
Margin: 262714 (27.22%)

Barring 1952 and 1967, the Congress has never won from here. In 1996, Balai Ray defeated the Congress's Ritesh Kumar Dutta by 263,000 votes.