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- ↑ "Poiem, Goa Assembly Election Results 2022 LIVE Updates: BJP's Deviya Vishwajit Rane defeats AAP's Vishwajit Rane with 13943 votes". India Today. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ↑ "Election Commission of India".
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