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Photo-finish battles in Bengal: 18 seats decided within 5,000 votes

Saibal Gupta
Kolkata, May 6 (UNI) In the recently concluded assembly polls in West Bengal, there are at least 18 constituencies where the winning margin is less than 5,000 votes — a figure that roughly translates to just about 2 per cent, considering the fact that the size of the electorate in most of the 294 constituencies is more than 2 lakhs.
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