Elections 98

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Nainital
Total Votes Polled:	768446
Winner: BJP	Ila Pant	292761
Runner Up: INC	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	277184
Margin: 15577 (5%)

Elections 96

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Nainital
Total Votes Polled:	791948
Winner: AIIC(T)	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	307449
Runner Up: BJP	Harish Chandra Singh Rawat	151604
Margin: 155845 (20.21%)

Gobind Ballabh's son K C Pant entered the fray from here in 1962, and represented the constituency for three consecutive terms, till 1971. The Janata wave of 1977 swept him aside, and the 1980 election was won by Narayan Dutt Tiwari. The Janata Dal's Mahendra S Pal won this seat in 1989, and in 1991 the BJP's Balraj Pasi defeated N D Tiwari. In 1996 Tiwari, now a Congress-Tiwari nominee, defeated Pasi by 156,000 votes.