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State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Sivakasi
Total Votes Polled:	808460
Winner: CPI	Alagirisamy V	238483
Runner Up: ADMK	Sanjay Ramasamy	214861
Margin: 23622 (3.05%)

It was the CPI which won the 1996 election from here, defeating the AIADMK's Sanjay Ramasamy by 24,000 votes. Apart from the winner V Alagirisamy, others in the fray included V Gopalswamy of the MDMK who came third, just 10,000 votes behind the AIADMK candidate.