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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.

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