Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Pudukkottai
Total Votes Polled:	791405
Winner: ADMK	Paramasivam, Raja	288072
Runner Up: DMK	Siva, P.N.	257552
Margin: 30520 (11%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Pudukkottai
Total Votes Polled:	828411
Winner: DMK	Siva N.	398209
Runner Up: INC	Swaminathan V N	220336
Margin: 177873 (22.54%)

The Congress won this seat four consecutive times starting 1980, and yet in 1996 it was the DMK, which last won from here in 1971, that romped home. N Siva defeated V N Swaminathan by 178,000 votes.