| 1 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
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| 2 | Tripura West (Lok Sabha constituency) - Bye election 2002 |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± |
| 4 | - | CPI(M) | Khagen Das | 3,94,364 | 57.07% | - |
| 5 | - | INC | Manik Deb | 2,43,521 | 35.63% | - |
| 6 | - | Trinamool Congress | Sudhir Ranjan Majumder | 33,353 | 4.88% | - |
| 7 | - | Amra Bangalee | Rakhal Raj Datta | 4,538 | 0.66% | - |
| 8 | - | Independent | Sukumar Ghosh | 2,132 | 0.31% | - |
| 9 | - | NCP | Rajkumar Kamaljit Singh | 1,998 | 0.29% | - |
| 10 | - | Independent | Biswajit Debnath | 1,357 | 0.21% | - |
| 11 | - | Independent | Ramu Banik | 1,333 | 0.20% | - |
| 12 | - | Independent | Jitendra Chandra Das | 828 | 0.12% | - |
| 13 | Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,50,843 | 49.72 | - |
| 14 | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,01,159 | 67.50 | - |
| 15 | - | CPI(M) hold | CPI(M) hold | Swing | - | - |

Question: How did Khagen Das do compared to Manik Deb in the by-election?
Answer: In the by-election, Khagen Das of CPI(M) defeated his rival Manik Deb of Congress by 1,50,843 votes.