Elections 98

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Jalpaiguri
Total Votes Polled:	887722
Winner: CPM	Minatai Sen	426672
Runner Up: WBTC	Kalyan Chakraborty	251697
Margin: 174975 (41%)

Elections 96

State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Jalpaiguri
Total Votes Polled:	919243
Winner: CPM	Jitendra Nath Das	434577
Runner Up: INC	Deb Prasad Roy	322115
Margin: 112462 (12.60%)

Following a familiar pattern, the Congress won all the elections till 1971, and in 1977 an Independent, K N Dagupta, won the seat. The CPI won this seat in 1980, and from 1984 it has been the turn of the CPI-M. In 1996 Jitendra Nath Das, the sitting CPI-M MP, retained the seat for his party, defeating the Congress's Deb Prasad Roy by 112,000 votes.