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State: Tamilnadu
Constituency: Sivaganga
Total Votes Polled: 674632
Winner: TMC(M) Chidambaram P 418774
Runner Up: INC Gowrishankaran M 171472
Margin: 247302 (38.26%)

Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's pocket borough, which he has held on since 1980. In 1996, he was the TMC candidate, fighting his erstwhile Congress colleague M Gowrishankaran, and defeated him by 247,000 votes.

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