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State: Assam
Constituency: Guwahati
Total Votes Polled: 872505
Winner: AGP Prabin Chandra Sarma 372833
Runner Up: INC Bhubaneswar Kalita 258436
Margin: 114397 (13.59%)

In the 1985 election the AGP won 60.9 % of the vote, compared to the Congress's 17.7 %. In the next election held from the state -- in 1991 -- the Congress won just 23.8 % of the vote, but won the seat. It improved its tally to 30.71 % in 1996, but the AGP, winning 44.30 %, wrested back the seat.

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