Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Vellore
Total Votes Polled:	693560
Winner: PMK	Shanmugam N.T.	331035
Runner Up: DMK	Mohammed Saqhy T.A.	304630
Margin: 26405 (8%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Vellore
Total Votes Polled:	711693
Winner: DMK	Shanmugam P	391141
Runner Up: INC	Akber Pasha B	180106
Margin: 211035 (31.03%)

In 1991 Akber Pasha of the Congress defeated the DMK's P Shanmugam, which was not surprising considering that the last time the DMK had won from here till then was in 1971. In 1996, Shanmugam trounced Pasha by 211,000 votes.