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State:	Uttar Pradesh
Constituency:	Robertsganj (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	637343
Winner: BJP	Ramshakal	225735
Runner Up: SP	Vijay Singh	153894
Margin: 71841 (11.60%)

Ram Nihore won the seat for the JD in 1991, and when he fought the 1996 election as the Congress candidate he ended up in the fourth position with 2.47 % of the vote. The BJP, which had won the seat in 1989, scored in 1996, defeating the SP's Vijay Singh by 72,000 votes.