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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Tirupathi (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	758791
Winner: INC	Nelavala Subrahmanyam	344738
Runner Up: TDP	Gali Rajasree	292406
Margin: 52332 (7.04%)

In 1984, the first time NTR's Telugu Desam contested a general election, his party took this seat, its candidate Chinta Mohan winning 52.9 % of the votes. The next time, in 1989, Chinta Mohan won on a Congress ticket, and kept it up in 1991 as well, boosting his tally to 62 % then. In 1996, the Congress party retained this seat, but its candidate Nelavala Subrahmanyam's vote count falling to 46.38 %. The TDP's share of the vote was 39.34 %, and the NTR-TDP's count was 10.75 %.