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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Birbhum (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	827366
Winner: CPM	Ramchandra Dome	402893
Runner Up: INC	Mamta Saha	291873
Margin: 111020 (13.88%)

The Congress won this seat till 1967, and from 1971 it has been the CPI-M's turn. Gaddar Saha was MP for four terms, and the next three times it has been Ramachandra Dome's turn. In 1996 Dome defeated the Congress's Mamata Saha by 111,000 votes.