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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Purulia
Total Votes Polled: 765833
Winner: FBL Bir Singh Mahato 375559
Runner Up: INC Gobinda Mukherjee 265689
Margin: 109870 (14.93%)

Since 1977, the Forward Bloc has been winning from here, with C Mahata having a straight run till the 1991 election. In 1996 his kin Birsingh Mahata was in the fray, and he defeated the Congress's Gobinda Mukherjee by 110,000 votes.

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