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State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Periyakulam
Total Votes Polled: 686544
Winner: DMK Ganagurusamy R 326665
Runner Up: ADMK Ramasamy R 195328
Margin: 131337 (19.74%)

The AIADMK had won this seat thrice consecutively till 1991, its sitting MP R Ramasamy going into the 1996 election with confidence. The DMK's R Gnanagurusamy stopped him in his tracks, defeating him by 131,000 votes. The last time the Congress won from here, incidentally, was in 1962.

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