Elections 98

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Nashik
Total Votes Polled:	677395
Winner: INC	Patil Madhav Balbant	381300
Runner Up: SHS	Godse Rajaram Parashram	278908
Margin: 102392 (27%)

Elections 96

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Nasik
Total Votes Polled:	634101
Winner: SHS	Godase Rajaram Parashram	295044
Runner Up: INC	Pawar Vasant Nivrutti	221505
Margin: 73539 (11.82%)

Before 1996, this constituency had voted non-Congress only twice. That year, it proved that the name Godse may be taboo elsewhere in the country but not here. The MP was Rajaram Parasram Godse of the Shiv Sena.