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State: Orissa
Constituency: Berhampur
Total Votes Polled: 558038
Winner: INC P V Narasimha Rao 340555
Runner Up: JD V Sugnana Kumari Deo 172015
Margin: 168540 (30.97%)

The CPI won in 1952, after which the constituency stayed with the Congress. In 1996 it had a VVIP candidate contesting on the Congress ticket, former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, who defeated his nearest JD rival by nearly 170,000 votes.

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