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State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Aurangabad
Total Votes Polled:	546176
Winner: JD	Virendra Kumar Singh	185761
Runner Up: INC	Satyendra Narayan Singh	162729
Margin: 23032 (4.28%)

The Janata Dal, although retaining this seat the last three times, has seen its vote fall from 47.7 % in 1989 to 34.51 % in 1996. The Congress, which has remained in the second position, has seen its share of the vote fall from 37.6 % to 30.23 % in the same period.