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State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Sitapur
Total Votes Polled:	495954
Winner: SP	Mukhtar Anis	148252
Runner Up: BJP	Janaradan Prasad Mishra	138206
Margin: 10046 (2.06%)

Rajendra Kumari Bajpai won this seat for the Congress thrice on the trot starting 1980, before being unseated by the BJP's Janardhan Prasad Mishra in 1991. In 1996, the Samajwadi Party's Mukhtar Anis defeated the BJP's Mishra by 10,000 votes. The BSP's Prem Nath Verma came in third, just 21,000 votes behind the BJP.