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State: Maharashtra
Constituency: Ramtek
Total Votes Polled: 559065
Winner: INC Meghe Dattatray Raghobaji 207188
Runner Up: SHS Jadhao Prakash Bhagwant 181466
Margin: 25722 (4.69%)

One of the few seats in the country which the Congress has never lost so far. P V Narasimha Rao was elected from here in 1984 and 1989, before he moved on to greener pastures. In 1996, in a low-turnout election, Datta Meghe won the seat for the Congress, defeating the Sena candidate. The former won 37.79 % of the vote, while the latter won 33.09 % of the vote.

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