Elections 98

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Banda
Total Votes Polled:	568613
Winner: BJP	Ramesh Chandra Dwivedi	184401
Runner Up: BSP	Ram Sajeewan	166453
Margin: 17948 (10%)

Elections 96

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Banda
Total Votes Polled:	367953
Winner: BSP	Ram Sajeevan Singh	125778
Runner Up: BJP	Prakash Narayan	116607
Margin: 9171 (2.56%)

It's been a free-for-all in this constituency that returned Dinesh Singh in 1957. More recently, Ram Sajeevan Singh of the BSP defeated the BJP's Prakash Narayan of the BJP by 9,000 votes in 1996, the latter having won the seat in the previous election defeating the BSP's B Kushwaha.