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State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Krisnagiri
Total Votes Polled: 715036
Winner: TMC(M) Narasimhan C 371009
Runner Up: INC Elankovan E V K S 176333
Margin: 194676 (29.36%)

Former Tamil Nadu Congress chief Vazhapaddi K Ramamurthy was elected four consecutive times starting 1980. In 1996, the INC candidate was E V K S Elankovan, who lost to the TMC's C Narasimhan by 195,000 votes. Ramamurthy came in third, with 163,484 votes.

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