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State: Maharashtra
Constituency: Nagpur
Total Votes Polled: 784944
Winner: BJP Banwarilal Purohit 353547
Runner Up: INC Kunda Avinash Vijaykar 232045
Margin: 121502 (15.62%)

Sixty candidates contested from here in 1996, and Banwarilal Purohit was elected MP on the BJP ticket. Interestingly, he was elected from in 1984 as well, but as a Congressman, contested and lost the 1991 election as a BJP man! Before 1996, the Congress had lost the seat only once, in 1971, and that to the Forward Bloc.

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