Elections 98

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Nanded
Total Votes Polled:	720358
Winner: INC	Patil Bhaskarrao Bapurao	337744
Runner Up: BJP	Dr Dhanajirao Deshmukh	290457
Margin: 47287 (14%)

Elections 96

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Nanded
Total Votes Polled:	642602
Winner: INC	Kunturkar Gangadharrao Mohanrao	185302
Runner Up: BJP	Dhanajirao Venkatrao Deshmukh	173366
Margin: 11936 (1.89%)

Former Union home minister S B Chavan won in 1980 and 1984. But his son Ashok Chavan was roundly defeated by the Janata Dal in 1989, making it the second time that the Congress has lost from this seat. Suryakanta Patil took the seat back for the Congress in 1991, and in 1996 the seat stayed with the Congress. Sharad Joshi, the economist-farmer-turned-politician, who was contesting on a JP ticket, was fourth in the pecking order.