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State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Sitamarhi
Total Votes Polled:	746914
Winner: JD	Nawal Kishore Rai	322483
Runner Up: INC	Md. Anvarul Haque	240226
Margin: 82257 (11.18%)

In 1957, when an election was first held here, the member elected was Acharya J B Kripalani, who fought on a Praja Socialist Party ticket. After this the constituency reverted to the Congress for the next three elections, before going the non-Congress way once again. In 1996, in fact, it was the Janata Dal's Nawal Kishore Rai who won from here, but the BJP's tally was not all that low: 21.25 % of the vote.