Elections 98

State:	Tamil Nadu
Constituency:	Tindivanam
Total Votes Polled:	675110
Winner: MDMK	Ramachandran N Gingee	320141
Runner Up: DMK	Venkatraman G	288688
Margin: 31453 (10%)

Elections 96

State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Tindivanam
Total Votes Polled:	724103
Winner: DMK	Venkatraman G	367308
Runner Up: INC	Ramamurthee K	177032
Margin: 190276 (27.61%)

The Dravida movement or not, till 1991 the DMK had won just once from here, in 1967, the constituency staying with the Congress . In 1996, G Venkataraman (DMK) defeated the Congress's K Ramamurthy by 190,000 votes.