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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Bankura
Total Votes Polled: 774916
Winner: CPM Acharia Basudeb 420402
Runner Up: INC Gouri Sankar Dey 191415
Margin: 228987 (30.63%)

Basudeb Acharya has been winning this seat for the CPI-M since 1977, thus making it six times in a row. In 1996 he defeated the Congress's Gouri Sankar Dey by 229,000 votes.

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