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State:	Gujarat
Constituency:	Surat
Total Votes Polled:	633385
Winner: BJP	Kashiram Rana	376933
Runner Up: INC	Kotadia Manubhai	201672
Margin: 175261 (28.40%)

Between 1957 and 1977 the constituency elected the same MP: Morarji Desai who fought the last election on the Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket and became prime minister, the first non-Congress PM. But if you consider Desai's Congress origins, the seat in effect voted Congress till 1984, after which it has remained faithful to the BJP's Kashiram Rana.