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Elections 98

State: Bihar
Constituency: Bettiah
Total Votes Polled: 698,213
Winner: BJP Madan Prasad Jaiswal 301,388
Runner Up: RJD Motiurrahman 259,487
Margin: 41,901 (14%)


Elections 96

State: Bihar
Constituency: Bettiah
Total Votes Polled: 631,754
Winner: BJP Madan Prasad Jaiswal 315,899
Runner Up: JD Nasim Ahmad 264,410
Margin: 51,489 (8.24%)


The Congress's share of votes in the 1996 election: just 3.19 pc. In the previous elections, which the Janata Dal had won, the BJP had come a close second, and by 1996 it had managed to overhaul Laloo's outfit.

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