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Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress-Congress combine won five of 10 West Bengal assembly seats and was ahead in three others, delivering a crushing blow to the ruling Left Front in by-elections held Saturday.

As the votes were counted, the Left Front, which had won three of the 10 seats in 2006, led only in Goalpokhar, with the Forward Bloc’s Ali Imran Ramoz ahead of his closest rival by about 4,000 votes.

Congress candidate Deepa Dasmunsi was the legislator from this North Dinajpur district seat of north Bengal till her election to the Lok Sabha this year.

The Trinamool Congress bagged four seats – Bongaon, Serampore, Alipore and Rajganj – while the Congress won from its traditional stronghold, Sujapur in Malda district.

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