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State: Karnataka
Constituency: Chamarajanagar (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 714967
Winner: JD A Siddaraju 214745
Runner Up: INC L H Balakrishna 191169
Margin: 23576 (3.38%)

Congressman V S Prasad had represented the constituency for four consecutive terms, and yet in 1996 the constituency resoundingly voted for the Janata Dal's A Siddaraju, the first time in its history it had voted non-Congress.

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