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State: West Bengal
Constituency: Durgapur (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 917970
Winner: CPM Sunil Khan 496250
Runner Up: INC Chittaranjan Pramanik 314537
Margin: 181713 (20.39%)

After 1962, when the Congress last won from here, the CPI-M has held on with tenacity. After three terms of Krishna Halder, P C Malik did likewise till 1991. In 1996, Sunil Khan kept the CPI-M flag flying, defeating the Congress's Chittaranjan Pramanik by 182,000 votes.

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