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State: Gujarat
Constituency: Banaskantha
Total Votes Polled: 482669
Winner: INC B K Gadhavi 211624
Runner Up: BJP Ghavada Harisinhji Pratapsinhji 199664
Margin: 11960 (2.52%)

In 1980 B K Gadhavi first won this seat on a Congress ticket, and retained it the next year. In the 1989 he was trounced by the Janata Dal, which won slightly more than 70 % of the vote. The sitting MP was defeated by the BJP's H P Chavda in 1991, and the Congress was nowhere in sight. Surprise, surprise, Gadhavi came back in 1996, defeating the BJP's MP by a narrow 12,000 vote margin.

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