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State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Sambalpur
Total Votes Polled:	661476
Winner: INC	Krupasindhu Bhoi	292894
Runner Up: JD	Bijaya Singh Bariha	208387
Margin: 84507 (13.05%)

Krupasinghu Bhoi first won in 1980, on a Congress ticket, and increased his vote tally in the next election. He lost in 1989, won the seat back in 1991, and managed to retain the seat in 1996, defeating his JD rival Bijaya Singh Bariha by nearly 85,000 votes.