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State:	Tamilnadu
Constituency:	Tenkasi (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	680617
Winner: TMC(M)	Arunachalam M	290663
Runner Up: INC	Selvaraj V	194737
Margin: 95926 (14.85%)

Since the first election this constituency has never voted non-Congress, except in 1996. Union minister M Arunachalam represented this constituency since 1977 on behalf of the Congress. In 1996, he was the TMC candidate, and defeated the INC's V Selvaraj by 96,000 votes.