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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Panskura
Total Votes Polled: 845529
Winner: CPI Geeta Mukherjee 455414
Runner Up: INC Padma Khastgir 344026
Margin: 111388 (13.41%)

Geeta Mukherjee -- the formidable campaigner for women's reservations in the legislatures -- has won this seat for the CPI from 1980. In 1996 she defeated Padma Khastgir -- a former judge of the Calcutta high court -- of the Congress by 111,000 votes.

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