Elections 98

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Keonjhar (ST)
Total Votes Polled:	659477
Winner: BJP	Upendranath Nayak	347906
Runner Up: INC	Madhava Sardar	261631
Margin: 86275 (25%)

Elections 96

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Keonjhar (ST)
Total Votes Polled:	627576
Winner: INC	Madhaba Sardar	279971
Runner Up: BJP	Harihar Soren	154061
Margin: 125910 (20.61%)

G C Munda won this seat for the JD in 1989 and 1991, but when the party nominated P B Nayak in 1996 the party ended up in the third position. Barely one thousand votes ahead, in the second position, was the BJP's Harihar Soren, right behind the Congress's Madhaba Sardar.