Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Arrah
Total Votes Polled:	736498
Winner: SAP	H P Singh	286286
Runner Up: RJD	Chandra Deo Prasad Verma	228122
Margin: 58164 (20%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Arrah
Total Votes Polled:	644523
Winner: JD	Chandra Deo Prasad Verma	192046
Runner Up: SAP	Ram Prasad Singh	151005
Margin: 41041 (6.44%)

Surajdeo Singh, the much-maligned friend of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar and the 'don of Dhanbad', was sent packing when he contested here on a Janata Party in 1991 by the JD's Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav. In 1996, when Yadav contested on a Congress ticket he was sent to the fourth position, some 22,000 votes behind the CPI-ML candidate.