Elections 98

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Murshidabad
Total Votes Polled:	939240
Winner: CPM	Moinul Hassan	463401
Runner Up: INC	Anarul Hossain Khan	272935
Margin: 190466 (41%)

Elections 96

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Murshidabad
Total Votes Polled:	996549
Winner: CPM	Masudal Hossain Syed	452273
Runner Up: INC	Anarul Hossain Khan	415088
Margin: 37185 (3.82%)

Syed Mohamed Hossain has won the seat for the CPI-M from 1980 till 1996. Interestingly, this constituency was represented by independents in three elections, 1962, 1967 and 1971. In 1996, Hossain defeated the Congress's Anarul Hossain Khan by 37,000 votes.