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State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Patna
Total Votes Polled:	781874
Winner: JD	Ramkripal Yadav	388513
Runner Up: BJP	S N Arya	349046
Margin: 39467 (5.10%)

Elections were countermanded in 1991 owing to violence, but in the 1989 election it was represented by the BJP. In 1996 the seat voted the Janata Dal, and the BJP's S N Arya was pushed to the third position.