Elections 98

State:	Rajasthan
Constituency:	Nagaur
Total Votes Polled:	742298
Winner: INC	Ramraghunath	411894
Runner Up: BJP	Richhapalsingh Mirdha	305495
Margin: 106399 (26%)

Elections 96

State:	Rajasthan
Constituency:	Nagaur
Total Votes Polled:	568281
Winner: INC	Nathuram Mirdha	287594
Runner Up: BJP	Harischand Kumawat	128560
Margin: 159034 (28.38%)

Nathuram Mirdha, then of the Congress, won the 1971 and 1977 elections. He retained the seat for the Congress-Urs in 1980, and in 1984 he was defeated by kinsman Ram Niwas Mirdha of the Congress. In 1989, contesting on the JD ticket, Nathuram defeated Ram Niwas, but by 1991 he had joined the Congress, for which party he won the seat in 1991 and 1996. That his popularity was undiminished can be seen from the 1996 result: he defeated his BJP rival H Kumawat by almost 160,000 votes. Sadly, he died soon after, and his son, contesting on a BJP ticket, won the by-election.