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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Purulia
Total Votes Polled:	765833
Winner: FBL	Bir Singh Mahato	375559
Runner Up: INC	Gobinda Mukherjee	265689
Margin: 109870 (14.93%)

Since 1977, the Forward Bloc has been winning from here, with C Mahata having a straight run till the 1991 election. In 1996 his kin Birsingh Mahata was in the fray, and he defeated the Congress's Gobinda Mukherjee by 110,000 votes.