Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Nawada (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	877588
Winner: RJD	Malti Devi	405495
Runner Up: BJP	Kameshwar Paswan	391111
Margin: 14384 (4%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Nawada (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	751302
Winner: BJP	Kameshwar Paswan	310194
Runner Up: CPM	Premchand Ram	213280
Margin: 96914 (13.03%)

Kameshwar Prasad of the BJP was behind the winning CPI-M candidate in 1989 but in 1991 there was no trace of him. However, in 1996 the seat voted BJP, with the CPI-M trailing by almost 100,000 votes. The Congress's share of the vote had collapsed from 39.2 % in 1991 to 9.01 % in 1996.