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State:	Assam
Constituency:	Dibrugarh
Total Votes Polled:	591297
Winner: INC	Paban Singh Ghatowar	281253
Runner Up: AGP	Israil Nanda	173898
Margin: 107355 (19.34%)

A steadfast Congress citadel, the closest the AGP came to challenging its supremacy was in 1985 when the AGP won 41.4 % of the vote compared to the Congress's 50.7 %. In 1996, for the first time, the BJP managed to corner 9.05 % of the vote.