West Bengal Irrigation Minister Rajib Banerjee has the distinction of the highest winning margin in this election.
He won by a whopping margin of 107,701 votes against his nearest rival - Protima Dutta, an independent candidate.
At Keshpur, TMC's Seuli Saha performed wonders too defeating CPI-M candidate Rameswar Doloi by a hefty margin of 101,151 votes.
For Congress, the credit of winning by the largest margin went to Manoj Chakraborty who polled 92,273 votes more than TMC nominee Sujata Banerjee in Baharampur seat.
Few other party leaders who scored big victories with over 50,000 margin were Ashis Chakraborty from Garbeta, Asima Patra from Dhanekhali and minister Sukumar Hansda in left wing extremism affected Jhargram.
There were others who won with very narrow margin. Abdur Rahaman of TMC escaped biting the dust by just 280 votes in Murarai seat and party's Nepal Ghorui managed to defeat Left leader by a margin of only 448 votes.
Bengali filmstar Soham Chakraborty was defeated by Sujit Chakraborty of CPI-M by a margin of 616 votes.
CPI leader Ashok Kumar Dinda (Tamluk seat), TMC's Sajal Panja (Monteswar) and Rabindranath Chatterjee (Katwa) and Congress candidate Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya (Bishnupur) too won by less than 1,000 votes.
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