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Elections 98

State: Tamil Nadu
Constituency: Arakkonam
Total Votes Polled: 721536
Winner: ADMK Gopal C 359431
Runner Up: TMC(M) Velu A.M. 309943
Margin: 49488 (14%)


Elections 96

State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Arakkonam
Total Votes Polled: 757483
Winner: TMC(M) Velu A M 425974
Runner Up: INC Raviram R 161129
Margin: 264845 (36.71%)


A Congress stronghold if possible in TN, this seat had, till 1991, voted non-Congress only once, and that was in 1967 at the height of the DMK fervour. Congressman R Jeevarathinam had won the seat three consecutive times starting 1984, and in 1996 the seat turned to the Tamil Maanila Congress's A M Velu.

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