Elections 98

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Bolpur
Total Votes Polled:	803382
Winner: CPM	Somnath Chatterjee	470645
Runner Up: WBTC	Gour Hari Chandra	219553
Margin: 251092 (53%)

Elections 96

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Bolpur
Total Votes Polled:	802298
Winner: CPM	Somnath Chatterjee	471549
Runner Up: INC	Sunil Das	217903
Margin: 253646 (32.57%)

CPI-M leader Somnath Chatterjee's constituency, which he has been winning from 1989. Before that, the last time the Congress was elected from here in 1967. In 1996 Chatterjee defeated the Congress's Sunil Das by 254,000 votes.