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State: Andhra Pradesh
Constituency: Eluru
Total Votes Polled: 795079
Winner: TDP Bolla Buli Ramaiah 333167
Runner Up: INC Maganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu) 331532
Margin: 1635 (0.21%)

Pentapati Pulla Rao (NTR-TDP) won 94,904 votes. Ramaiah, the winning TDP candidate, won the seat in 1984 and 1991; in 1989, he was no match for Telugu superstar Krishna (Congress). After losing the seat in 1991, the actor, it seems, has 'retired' from electoral politics. The margin of victory in 1996 -- 0.21 % -- was slimmer than 1991 when Ramaiah had a clear 7 % lead over Krishna.

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