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State: Bihar
Constituency: Purnea
Total Votes Polled: 679646
Winner: SP Rajesh Ranjan 443111
Runner Up: BJP Rajendra Pd. Gupta 126956
Margin: 316155 (47.08%)

The 1991 election was countermanded owing to violence, thus ensuring the constituency's place in electoral history. In 1996, it returned the Samajwadi Party's Rajesh Ranjan 'Pappu' Yadav, who defeated his nearest BJP rival by 317,000 votes.

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