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State: Uttar Pradesh
Constituency: Kaiserganj
Total Votes Polled: 521141
Winner: SP Beni Prasad Verma 203490
Runner Up: BJP Laxmi Narain Mani Tripathi 179567
Margin: 23923 (4.68%)

The BJP won the 1989 and 1991 elections courtesy L N M Tripathi, but in 1996 Tripathi was defeated by the SP's Beni Prasad Verma by 24,000 votes. The Congress candidate came fourth, winning 1.91 % of the vote.

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