Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Jamshedpur
Total Votes Polled:	724308
Winner: BJP	Abha Mahato	296686
Runner Up: IND	Russi Modi	199253
Margin: 97433 (33%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Jamshedpur
Total Votes Polled:	673748
Winner: BJP	Bhardwaj Nitish Janardan	221702
Runner Up: JD	Inder Singh Namdhari	166565
Margin: 55137 (8.30%)

Shailendra Mahato of the JMM won the seat in 1984 and in 1989, before making way for the BJP in 1996 which fielded Nitish 'Krishna' Bharadwaj from here. Mahato himself was relegated to the third position.