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Elections 98

State: Tamil Nadu
Constituency: Pudukkottai
Total Votes Polled: 791405
Winner: ADMK Paramasivam, Raja 288072
Runner Up: DMK Siva, P.N. 257552
Margin: 30520 (11%)


Elections 96

State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Pudukkottai
Total Votes Polled: 828411
Winner: DMK Siva N. 398209
Runner Up: INC Swaminathan V N 220336
Margin: 177873 (22.54%)


The Congress won this seat four consecutive times starting 1980, and yet in 1996 it was the DMK, which last won from here in 1971, that romped home. N Siva defeated V N Swaminathan by 178,000 votes.

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