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State: Bihar
Constituency: Banka
Total Votes Polled: 640950
Winner: JD Giridhari Yadav 276214
Runner Up: SAP Digvijay Singh 261499
Margin: 14715 (2.34%)

Madhu Limaye, Janata Party ideologue and the chief wrecker of the Morarji Desai government, won from here in 1977; in 1980 he was shown the door. In 1989 and 1991 the Congress held on to the second position behind the Janata Dal, but in 1996 the runner-up was the Samata Party.

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