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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Jadavpur
Total Votes Polled:	1075315
Winner: INC	Krishna Bose	499254
Runner Up: CPM	Malini Bhattacharya	486216
Margin: 13038 (1.24%)

Indrajit Gupta won the seat for the CPI in 1962. Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi won the seat for the Congress in 1971. Somnath Chatterjee won this seat for the CPI-M in 1977 and 1980. Mamata Banerjee won this seat for the Congress in 1984. And in 1989 and 1991, the CPI-M's Malini Bhattacharya won this seat, before losing it to the Congress in 1996. She trailed the Congress's Krishna Bose, Netaji's niece-in-law, by 13,000 votes.