Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Sriperumbudur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	724858
Winner: ADMK	Venugopal, K.	326528
Runner Up: DMK	Nagarathinam, T.	302733
Margin: 23795 (7%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Sriperumbudur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	779085
Winner: DMK	Nagaratnam T	431919
Runner Up: INC	Lata Priyakumar	186208
Margin: 245711 (32.96%)

The constituency where former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991, returned his party's Maragatham Chandrashekhar for the third consecutive time that year. The DMK, which last won this seat in 1980, won the 1996 election, courtesy T Nagaratnam, who defeated the Congress's Lata Priyakumar -- Chandrashekhar's daughter -- by 245,000 votes.