Elections 98

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Jalgaon
Total Votes Polled:	637925
Winner: INC	Dr Ulhas Vasudeo Patil	339980
Runner Up: BJP	Gunwantrao Rambhau Sarode	283166
Margin: 56814 (17%)

Elections 96

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Jalgaon
Total Votes Polled:	521257
Winner: BJP	Gunwantrao Rambhau Sarode	268654
Runner Up: INC	Mahajan Jivram Tukaram	184567
Margin: 84087 (16.59%)

A Congress citadel, with a break in 1977. The losing Congress candidate then, Mahajan Jadhav, went on to win the seat in the next three elections. In 1991, the BJP first won from here, with G S Sarode winning 49.6 % of the vote. He repeated his rout of Congressman M J Tukaram, and increased his tally to 52.99 % in 1996.