Elections 98

State:	Himachal Pradesh
Constituency:	Mandi
Total Votes Polled:	490660
Winner: BJP	Maheshwar Singh	304210
Runner Up: INC	Pratibha Singh	172378
Margin: 131832 (43%)

Elections 96

State:	Himachal Pradesh
Constituency:	Mandi
Total Votes Polled:	530204
Winner: INC	Sukh Ram	328186
Runner Up: BJP	Adan Singh Thakur	174963
Margin: 153223 (29.15%)

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was elected in the 1952 election, and it was represented by current Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in 1971 and 1980. More recently, it burst into the news as the constituency of the tainted Sukh Ram who, barring 1989, has been representing this seat consistently. In 1996, in fact, his margin over his nearest BJP rival was around 15,000 votes.