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State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Nasik
Total Votes Polled:	634101
Winner: SHS	Godase Rajaram Parashram	295044
Runner Up: INC	Pawar Vasant Nivrutti	221505
Margin: 73539 (11.82%)

Before 1996, this constituency had voted non-Congress only twice. That year, it proved that the name Godse may be taboo elsewhere in the country but not here. The MP was Rajaram Parasram Godse of the Shiv Sena.