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State: Orissa
Constituency: Kalahandi
Total Votes Polled: 584472
Winner: SAP Bhakta Charan Das 200080
Runner Up: INC Subash Chandra Nayak 147047
Margin: 53033 (9.32%)

So far the Congress has won this seat only three times. J B Patnaik was the second Congressman to win this seat, in 1984, before losing to Bhakta Charan Das (JD) the next time round. The Congress regained this famine-hit constituency in 1991, but Das wrested it back in 1996 for the Samata Party.

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