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State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Puri
Total Votes Polled:	689395
Winner: INC	Pinaki Mishra	352837
Runner Up: JD	Brajakishore Tripaty	240529
Margin: 112308 (16.49%)

Nilamani Routray won it for the JD in 1989. Braj Kishore Tripathy was the JD MP from here in 1991, and the next time round, in 1996, he was defeated by the Congress's Pinaki Mishra.