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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Nandyal
Total Votes Polled:	740886
Winner: INC	P V Narasimha Rao	366431
Runner Up: TDP	Bhuma Venkata Nagi Reddy	267901
Margin: 98530 (13.56%)

The constituency which gave former P V Narasimha Rao an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1991 for the maximum votes -- 89.5% ! -- polled. In 1996, he had an opposition to contend with, and still managed to poll 366,431 votes and defeat the TDP. An aside this seat returned Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy to the Lok Sabha in 1977, the only one the Congress did not win in the state that year.