India, May 24 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the repoll for Bengal's Falta assembly seat on Sunday with its candidate Debangshu Panda winning by a margin of over one lakh votes.

Panda won by a record margin of 1,09,021 votes - the highest among all 294 seats polled in April - while Trinamool Congress (TMC) came in fourth with 7783 votes, losing its electoral deposit for the first time since 2011, when it unseated the Left Front government and ruled for three terms.

Panda secured 149666 votes. CPI(M)'s Sambhu Nath Kurmi and Congress candidate Abdur Razzak Molla came second and third in the race with 40645 and 10084 votes respectively.

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