Elections 98

State:	Chandigarh
Constituency:	Chandigarh
Total Votes Polled:	285149
Winner: BJP	Satya Pal Jain	119787
Runner Up: INC	Pawan Kumar Bansal	109421
Margin: 10366 (9%)

Elections 96

UT:	Chandigarh
Constituency:	Chandigarh
Total Votes Polled:	263189
Winner: BJP	Satya Pal Jain	101137
Runner Up: INC	Pawan Kumar Bansal	77168
Margin: 23969 (9.25%)

It has always been a tossup between the Congress and the JD versions, right from the first election in 1967. In 1996, however, for the first time the BJP won the election, Satya Pal Jain defeating the Congress's Pawan Kumar Bansal by 24,000 votes. The Samata Party which was also in the fray, cornered 45,569 votes.