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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Jhargram (ST)
Total Votes Polled: 827962
Winner: CPM Rupchand Murmu 485498
Runner Up: INC Subodh Hansda 138234
Margin: 347264 (43.12%)

After Durga Banerjee won this seat for the Jan Sangh in 1952, the Congress moved in. The CPI-M won this seat for the first time 1977, and has held on after that. In 1996 sitting MP Rupchand Murmu defeated the Congress's Subodh Hansda by 347,000 votes.

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