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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Hooghly
Total Votes Polled:	934941
Winner: CPM	Rupchand Pal	452353
Runner Up: INC	Gouri Sankar Banerjee	413856
Margin: 38497 (4.20%)

The Congress has won this seat only once, in 1984, when I Bhattacharya defeated sitting CPI-M MP Rup Chand Pal. Pal came back in 1989, and has won this seat three times in a row after that. In 1996 Pal defeated the Congress's Gauri Sankar Banerjee by 39,000 votes.