Elections 98

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Hathras (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	537999
Winner: BJP	Kishan Lal Diler	261809
Runner Up: BSP	Ganga Prasad Pushkar	119229
Margin: 142580 (54%)

Elections 96

State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Hathras (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	434103
Winner: BJP	Kishan Lal Diler	207057
Runner Up: BSP	Ranbir Singh Kashyap	95263
Margin: 111794 (26.23%)

After 1977 it has been a toss-up between the Congress, which had earlier retained the seat, and the JD, and in 1991, for the first time the BJP's Lal Bahadur Rawal won the seat. The BJP changed its candidate to Kishan Lal Diler in 1996, who managed to hold on to the seat, defeating Ranbir Singh Kashyap of the BSP by 112,000 votes. The SP was in third position, winning 93,214 votes.