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State: Madhya Pradesh
Constituency: Seoni
Total Votes Polled: 624999
Winner: BJP Prahlad Singh Patel 262373
Runner Up: INC Vimla Verma 197526
Margin: 64847 (10.78%)

Before 1984, the Congress lost this seat only once, in 1977 to the BLD. In 1989, the BJP managed to wrest the seat from it, before Prahlad Singh Patel lost to the Congress in 1991. In 1996, Patel got his revenge, routing the Congress candidate by 65,000 votes.

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