Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Bikramganj
Total Votes Polled:	755221
Winner: SAP	Bashist Narayan Singh	301789
Runner Up: RJD	Kanti Singh	293938
Margin: 7851 (3%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Bikramganj
Total Votes Polled:	659395
Winner: JD	Kanti Singh	276508
Runner Up: SAP	Vashishta Narayan Singh	274085
Margin: 2423 (0.37%)

In 1957 the Congress's Ram Subhag Singh defeated an Independent, Jagjivan Ram. Since 1989 the seat has been won by the JD but in 1996 the runner-up position had been taken over by the Samata Party, which lost the election by just 2,500 votes.