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State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Thanjavur
Total Votes Polled: 700830
Winner: DMK Palanimanickam S S 390010
Runner Up: INC Thulasiah Vandayar K 189582
Margin: 200428 (30.22%)

The MP from here in 1952 and 1957 was the Congress's R Venkataraman. The party went the DMK/AIADMK way for a brief while before reverting to the Congress. In 1996, however, the DMK's S S Palanimanickam defeated sitting Congress MP Thulasiah Vandayar by 201,000 votes.

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