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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Mahabubnagar
Total Votes Polled:	744665
Winner: INC	Mallikarjun	259875
Runner Up: TDP	D K Aruna	254377
Margin: 5498 (0.76)

At the height of the Rajiv wave in 1984, this seat returned the Janata Party to the Lok Sabha, but after that it has been the Congress's Mallikarjun three times in a row. In 1996, the BJP took away an impressive 17.34 % of the vote, but it was down from 1991's 21.1 %.