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Elections 98

State: West Bengal
Constituency: Howrah
Total Votes Polled: 1027782
Winner: WBTC Dr Bikram Sarkar 437224
Runner Up: CPM Swadesh Chakkraborty 430689
Margin: 6535 (1%)


Elections 96

State: West Bengal
Constituency: Howrah
Total Votes Polled: 985507
Winner: INC Priya Ranjan Das Munsi 459059
Runner Up: CPM Susanta Chakraborty 425128
Margin: 33931 (3.54%)


The Congress won the first election in 1952, after which the CPI-M took over. The Congress won next only in 1967, after which again the CPI-M took over. The third Congress victory in 1984 was courtesy Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, who lost the next two rounds to the CPI-M's Susanta Chakraborty. In 1996, however, Dasmunshi defeated Chakraborty by 34,000 votes.

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