Elections 98

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Kodarma
Total Votes Polled:	680671
Winner: BJP	Ritlal Prasad Verma	280635
Runner Up: RJD	Avid Hussain	182724
Margin: 97911 (35%)

Elections 96

State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Kodarma
Total Votes Polled:	629464
Winner: BJP	Ritlal Prasad Verma	243295
Runner Up: JD	Ramesh Prasad Yadav	196341
Margin: 46954 (7.61%)

Ritlal Prasad Verma first won the seat in 1977 as a Bharatiya Lok Dal candidate. In 1980 he retained the seat for the Janata Party, and lost it in 1984 for the BJP. He came back in 1989, lost in 1991 to the Janata Dal and was re-elected in 1996 as the BJP candidate.