Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Tenkasi (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	662321
Winner: ADMK	Murugesan,S.	270053
Runner Up: TMC(M)	Arunachalam M.	172786
Margin: 97267 (36%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Tenkasi (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	680617
Winner: TMC(M)	Arunachalam M	290663
Runner Up: INC	Selvaraj V	194737
Margin: 95926 (14.85%)

Since the first election this constituency has never voted non-Congress, except in 1996. Union minister M Arunachalam represented this constituency since 1977 on behalf of the Congress. In 1996, he was the TMC candidate, and defeated the INC's V Selvaraj by 96,000 votes.