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State: Bihar
Constituency: Jahanabad
Total Votes Polled: 795058
Winner: CPI Ramashraya Prasad Singh 281157
Runner Up: INC Jagdish Sharma 185507
Margin: 95650 (12.15%)

Right from 1984 the seat has with Ramashraya Prasad Singh of the CPI, although his share of the vote has fallen from 50.7 % to 35.72 % between 1984 and 1996. The Congress has managed to hold on to the second position, but in 1996 it was ahead of the Samata Party by less than 30,000 votes.

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