Elections 98

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Sultanpur
Total Votes Polled:	677229
Winner: BJP	Debendra Bahadur Rai	269951
Runner Up: SP	Dr. Rita Bahuguna	205503
Margin: 64448 (24%)

Elections 96

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Sultanpur
Total Votes Polled:	574530
Winner: BJP	Devendra Bahadur Rai	238843
Runner Up: SP	Kamruzama Faugi	120559
Margin: 118284 (21.06%)

Kedar Nath Singh had won the seat for the Congress once, in 1971, before he got swept away by the 1977 wave. In 1996, which he contested on the Congress-T ticket, he came fourth, two places above the official Congress candidate Raj Karan Singh who was the MP in 1984. In 1991 and 1996, the constituency voted for the BJP. The last time, the BJP defeated the SP's Kamruzama Faugi by 118,000 votes, although it had replaced sitting MP V D Shastri with Devendra Bahadur Rai.