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State: Bihar
Constituency: Madhepura
Total Votes Polled: 624787
Winner: JD Sharad Yadav 381190
Runner Up: SAP Anand Mandal 144046
Margin: 237144 (38.51%)

From 1980 the MP has invariably been a Yadav; in 1991 and 1996 the MP was a certain Sharad Yadav. The 1998 election should be interesting since Laloo, with whose support Yadav was returned to Parliament, has thrown a gauntlet at his ally turned foe.

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