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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Joynagar (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	894592
Winner: RSP	Sanat Kumar Mandal	418373
Runner Up: INC	Jogesh Roy	274446
Margin: 143927 (16.57%)

Katki Kumar Sarkar won this seat for the Congress in 1971, and in 1977 he retained the seat, but this time as the BLD candidate. From 1980 Sanat Kumar Mandal has won this seat for the RSP, and in 1996 Mandal defeated the Congress's Jogesh Roy by 44,000 votes.