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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.