14 October,2012 08:38 AM IST | | Agencies
While Abhijit secured 3,32,919 votes, his nearest rival Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Muzaffar Hussain lost in a photo finish getting 3,30,383 in the vote count. The by-election was held on October 10.
Pranab Mukherjee had retained the seat in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district by over 1.28 lakh votes in 2009.
The Congress votes dropped sharply to a little over 39 per cent - a decrease of nearly 15 per cent. The CPI-M, which got almost 39 per cent, suffered a slight erosion of 1.53 per cent compared to its vote share three years ago.
Hussain led in four - Jangipur, Sagardighi, Suti, Nabagram - of the seven assembly segments.