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State:	Assam
Constituency:	Tezpur
Total Votes Polled:	677449
Winner: INC	Iswar Prasanna Hazarika	207071
Runner Up: AGP	Harsha Bahadur Biswakarama	200352
Margin: 6719 (1.05%)

Barring 1977, during the Janata wave, this constituency has always voted Congress, and so it was in 1996. What was new then was the BJP cornering 12.99 % of the vote.