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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.

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