Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Tiruppattur
Total Votes Polled:	699895
Winner: DMK	Venugopal D	322990
Runner Up: ADMK	Krishnamoorthy S.	322716
Margin: 274 (0%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Tiruppattur
Total Votes Polled:	732490
Winner: DMK	Venugopal D	430766
Runner Up: INC	Anbarasu R	190502
Margin: 240264 (34.33%)

The Congress first won from this hosiery town in 1952, and the next time was in 1984 when it performed a hat-trick. The DMK did not do all that badly here, considering its poor electoral fortunes elsewhere in the state after the emergence of the MGR phenomenon, and had won the 1980 election. In 1996 its Venugopal D defeated the Congress's Anbarasu by 240,000 votes.