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State: Orissa
Constituency: Balasore
Total Votes Polled: 784650
Winner: INC Kartik Mohapatra 411168
Runner Up: IND Arun Dey 220487
Margin: 190681 (24.53%)

Samarendra Kundu is the only non-Congress MP to have been elected from this constituency. In 1967 he was elected on the PSP ticket; in 1977 he was elected on the BLD ticket; and in 1989 he was elected on the JD ticket. The Congress won back the seat in 1991 and in 1996, and interestingly the runner-up in 1996 was an Independent candidate.

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