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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Burdwan
Total Votes Polled: 983515
Winner: CPM Balai Ray 578279
Runner Up: INC Ritesh Kumar Dutta 315565
Margin: 262714 (27.22%)

Barring 1952 and 1967, the Congress has never won from here. In 1996, Balai Ray defeated the Congress's Ritesh Kumar Dutta by 263,000 votes.

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