Elections 98

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Osmanabad (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	547336
Winner: INC	Arvind Tulshiram Kamble	280592
Runner Up: SHS	Kamble Shivaji Vittalrao	233574
Margin: 47018 (17%)

Elections 96

State:	Maharashtra
Constituency:	Osmanabad (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	487084
Winner: BJP	Kamble Shivaji Vithalrao	198521
Runner Up: INC	Arvind Tulshiram Kamble	182602
Margin: 15919 (3.37%)

The Congress had never lost an election from here, till 1996 when in a surprise outcome the Shiv Sena's Shivaji Vithalrao Kamble defeated three-time Congress MP Arvind Kamble by 16,000 votes.