Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Perambalur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	661791
Winner: ADMK	Rajarethinam P.	341118
Runner Up: DMK	Raja A.	280682
Margin: 60436 (18%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Perambalur (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	721728
Winner: DMK	Raja A	399079
Runner Up: INC	Subramanian P V	184832
Margin: 214247 (31.77%)

The last time the DMK won from here was in 1971, after which the constituency remained with the alliance partners the AIADMK-Congress. In 1996, the DMK's A Raja defeated the Congress's P V Subramanian by 215,000 votes.