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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.

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