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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Uluberia
Total Votes Polled:	863906
Winner: CPM	Hannan Mollah	415592
Runner Up: INC	Minati Adhikari	387750
Margin: 27842 (3.29%)

The last time the Congress won from here was in 1967, after which it has been the CPI-M all the way. Hannan Mollah, the 1996 MP, has been winning the seat for the CPI-M since 1980. In 1996 he defeated the Congress's Minati Adhikari by 28,000 votes.