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State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Chamarajanagar (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	714967
Winner: JD	A Siddaraju	214745
Runner Up: INC	L H Balakrishna	191169
Margin: 23576 (3.38%)

Congressman V S Prasad had represented the constituency for four consecutive terms, and yet in 1996 the constituency resoundingly voted for the Janata Dal's A Siddaraju, the first time in its history it had voted non-Congress.