Elections 98

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Kaiserganj
Total Votes Polled:	679338
Winner: SP	Beni Prasad Verma	264369
Runner Up: BJP	Ghanshyam Shukla	239398
Margin: 24971 (9%)

Elections 96

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Kaiserganj
Total Votes Polled:	521141
Winner: SP	Beni Prasad Verma	203490
Runner Up: BJP	Laxmi Narain Mani Tripathi	179567
Margin: 23923 (4.68%)

The BJP won the 1989 and 1991 elections courtesy L N M Tripathi, but in 1996 Tripathi was defeated by the SP's Beni Prasad Verma by 24,000 votes. The Congress candidate came fourth, winning 1.91 % of the vote.