Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Khagaria
Total Votes Polled:	754620
Winner: SAP	Shakuni Choudhury	333475
Runner Up: RJD	Anil Kumar Yadav	250288
Margin: 83187 (25%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Khagaria
Total Votes Polled:	683001
Winner: JD	Anil Kumar Yadav	292892
Runner Up: SAP	Shakuni Choudhary	280515
Margin: 12377 (1.84%)

Ramsharan Yadav won the seat for the Janata Dal in 1989 and 1991, but when he contested on a Congress ticket in 1996 found himself in the third position, behind winner JD and the runner-up the Samata Party.