Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Banka
Total Votes Polled:	714581
Winner: SAP	Digvijay Singh	331660
Runner Up: RJD	Giridhari Yadav	320369
Margin: 11291 (3%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Banka
Total Votes Polled:	640950
Winner: JD	Giridhari Yadav	276214
Runner Up: SAP	Digvijay Singh	261499
Margin: 14715 (2.34%)

Madhu Limaye, Janata Party ideologue and the chief wrecker of the Morarji Desai government, won from here in 1977; in 1980 he was shown the door. In 1989 and 1991 the Congress held on to the second position behind the Janata Dal, but in 1996 the runner-up was the Samata Party.