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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Mathurapur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	875404
Winner: CPM	Radhika Ranjan Pramanik	410110
Runner Up: INC	Sujit Patwari	394042
Margin: 16068 (1.88%)

M Halder managed to stem the CPI-M's hold over this constituency and win it back for the Congress in 1984, but from 1989 this seat has been represented by the CPI-M's Radhika Ranjan Pramanik who in 1996, defeated the Congress's Sujit Patwari by 16,000 votes.