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State:	Madhya Pradesh
Constituency:	Rajnandgaon
Total Votes Polled:	522111
Winner: BJP	Ashok Sharma	222616
Runner Up: INC	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	163340
Margin: 59276 (11.90%)

Another Congress citadel that fell to the BJP in 1989 and in 1996. S B Singh was elected from here for the first time in 1980, and retained his seat in 1984. In 1989 the BJP wrested the seat from him, winning 51.5 % of the vote, but in 1991 Singh reclaimed his seat. Again, in 1996, the BJP took the seat back, defeating Singh by a huge margin of 60,000 votes.