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State:	Gujarat
Constituency:	Kaira
Total Votes Polled:	371499
Winner: INC	Dinsha Patel	178318
Runner Up: BJP	Dr K D Jeshwani	128747
Margin: 49571 (13.65%)

K D Jeswani of the BJP wrested this seat from the Janata Dal-Gujarat in the 1991 election, in which the Congress was nowhere to be found. But the latter's Dinsha Patel scored over the sitting MP by a margin of 50,000 votes in 1996, but more significant was the Congress-Tiwari's share of the vote: 11.23 %.