Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Sitamarhi
Total Votes Polled:	777,382
Winner: RJD	Sita Ram Yadav	277,898
Runner Up: JD	Nawal Kishore Rai	254,389
Margin: 23,509 (8%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Sitamarhi
Total Votes Polled:	746,914
Winner: JD	Nawal Kishore Rai	322,483
Runner Up: INC	Mohammad Anvarul Haque	240,226
Margin: 82,257 (11.18%)

In 1957, when an election was first held here, the member elected was Acharya J B Kripalani, who fought on a Praja Socialist Party ticket. After this the constituency reverted to the Congress for the next three elections, before going the non-Congress way once again. In 1996, in fact, it was the Janata Dal's Nawal Kishore Rai who won from here, but the BJP's tally was not all that low: 21.25 % of the vote.