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State: Bihar
Constituency: Patna
Total Votes Polled: 781874
Winner: JD Ramkripal Yadav 388513
Runner Up: BJP S N Arya 349046
Margin: 39467 (5.10%)

Elections were countermanded in 1991 owing to violence, but in the 1989 election it was represented by the BJP. In 1996 the seat voted the Janata Dal, and the BJP's S N Arya was pushed to the third position.

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