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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Arambagh
Total Votes Polled: 931653
Winner: CPM Anil Basu 544289
Runner Up: INC Monoranjan Hazra 317956
Margin: 226333 (24.77%)

After 1962 the Congress has never won this seat. Anil Basu has been winning this seat for the CPI-M since 1984, but in 1996 he was facing Monoranjan Hazra, who was the CPI-M MP from here in 1971 and who was contesting this election on the Congress ticket. Basu won by 227,000 votes.

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