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State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Nilgiris
Total Votes Polled: 796437
Winner: TMC(M) Balasubramaniyan S R 475515
Runner Up: INC R Prabhu 194139
Margin: 281376 (37.22%)

From 1980 Congressman and former minister R Prabhu had won the election four consecutive times, till 1991. In 1996, he was pitted against his former colleague S R Balasubramanian, who was fighting on the TMC ticket. The latter won, by 179,000 votes.

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