Elections 98

State:	Rajasthan
Constituency:	Alwar
Total Votes Polled:	658873
Winner: INC	Ghasi Ram Yadav	203574
Runner Up: IND	Mahendra Kumari	201013
Margin: 2561 (1%)

Elections 96

State:	Rajasthan
Constituency:	Alwar
Total Votes Polled:	438479
Winner: INC	Nawal Kishore	156947
Runner Up: BJP	Jaswant Singh Yadav	154514
Margin: 2433 (0.56%)

The BJP won this constituency for the first time in 1991, thanks to Mahendra Kumari, and promptly lost to the Congress's Nawal Kishore Sharma in 1996 by just 2,000 votes. Mahendra Kumari is in the fray in 1998 as well, as a piqued Independent candidate.