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State: Assam
Constituency: Silchar
Total Votes Polled: 592252
Winner: INC Sontosh Mohan Deb 237804
Runner Up: BJP Kabindra Purkayastha 169663
Margin: 68141 (12.23%)

In 1980 and 1985, the MP from this seat was a certain Santosh Mohan Deb, who moved onto other assignments in the North-East thereafter. But the seat, which stayed loyal to the Congress from the outset, shifted to the BJP in 1991, before Deb wrested it back in 1996.

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