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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Murshidabad
Total Votes Polled: 996549
Winner: CPM Masudal Hossain Syed 452273
Runner Up: INC Anarul Hossain Khan 415088
Margin: 37185 (3.82%)

Syed Mohamed Hossain has won the seat for the CPI-M from 1980 till 1996. Interestingly, this constituency was represented by independents in three elections, 1962, 1967 and 1971. In 1996, Hossain defeated the Congress's Anarul Hossain Khan by 37,000 votes.

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