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State: Bihar
Constituency: Bikramganj
Total Votes Polled: 659395
Winner: JD Kanti Singh 276508
Runner Up: SAP Vashishta Narayan Singh 274085
Margin: 2423 (0.37%)

In 1957 the Congress's Ram Subhag Singh defeated an Independent, Jagjivan Ram. Since 1989 the seat has been won by the JD but in 1996 the runner-up position had been taken over by the Samata Party, which lost the election by just 2,500 votes.

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