Elections 98

State:	Madhya Pradesh
Constituency:	Khajuraho
Total Votes Polled:	831222
Winner: BJP	Uma Bharti	351607
Runner Up: INC	Shriram	247760
Margin: 103847 (30%)

Elections 96

State:	Madhya Pradesh
Constituency:	Khajuraho
Total Votes Polled:	673043
Winner: BJP	Uma Bharti	294472
Runner Up: INC	Manvendra Singh	163382
Margin: 131090 (20.15%)

The Jan Sangh had come runner-up twice in the past, but none of the losers had the panache of the BJP loser from here in 1984: Uma Bharati. She bounced back in 1989, winning a whopping 61 % of the votes, and has retained the seat ever since. In 1996 her tally of votes was only 45 %, but she defeated her Congress rivals by more than 100,000 votes.