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State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Buldhana (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	607477
Winner: SHS	Adsul Anandrao Vithoba	281953
Runner Up: INC	Wasnik Mukul Balkrishna	212522
Margin: 69431 (11.70%)

Another Congress citadel, this seat was won in 1977 by the Republican Party of India-Khobragade. The Wasniks took the seat back, before losing to the BJP in 1989. In 1991, young Mukul Wasnik won the traditional family -- his father Balkrishna had won it in 1980 and 1984 -- seat back for the Congress, defeating P G Gavai -- lieutenant governor during the anti-Sikh riots of the BJP. The Shiv Sena contested this seat in 1996 with the BJP and defeated Wasnik by almost 70,000 votes.