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State:	Assam
Constituency:	Jorhat
Total Votes Polled:	677369
Winner: INC	Bijoy Krishna Handique	311578
Runner Up: AGP	Bhadreswar Buragohain	264339
Margin: 47239 (7.28%)

The AGP won 40.71 % of the vote in 1996, but it still came second behind the Congress's 47.99 %. The AGP has won the seat only once, in 1985.