The 1996 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a landslide for the newly formed alliance between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and its leader G. K. Moopanar, and the left parties who ended up getting all 39 seats. Post election, the newly formed United Front, ended up getting all the seats from Tamil Nadu, since DMK and TMC joined it, with outside support from Indian National Congress (INC). The results in Tamil Nadu is a reflection of the results nationally, where INC, ended up losing the most seats. This election was seen as redemption for Moopanar and TMC, since they left Congress, on grounds that they formed an alliance with AIADMK, even though J. Jayalalithaa, general secretary of AIADMK, was accused of many corruption charges. This led to a disastrous showing, for AIADMK and Congress in Tamil Nadu, since they lost all 39 seats from the last election, and TMC reaping the benefits by getting the most seats, in this election with 20 seats.

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Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1996

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39 (of 543) seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered	42,488,022
Turnout	28,438,885 (66.93%) 3.01%
First party Second party   Leader G. K. Moopanar J. Jayalalithaa Party TMC(M) AIADMK Alliance United Front Congress alliance Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest Seats won 39 0 Seat change 39 39 Popular vote 14,940,474 7,095,650 Percentage 54.96% 26.10% Swing 30.23% 34.57%
1996 Election map (by constituencies) Red = United Front (won all the seats)

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Alliance		Party		Popular Vote	Percentage	Swing	Seats won	Seat Change
	United Front		Tamil Maanila Congress	7,339,982	27.00%	new party	20	new party
			Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6,967,679	25.63%	2.94%	17	17
			Communist Party of India	632,813	2.33%	0.29%	2	2
			Total	14,940,474	54.96%	30.23%	39	39
	AIADMK+		Indian National Congress	4,965,364	18.26%	24.31%	0	28
			All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2,130,286	7.84%	10.26%	0	11
			Total	7,095,650	26.10%	34.57%	0	39
	MDMK+		Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1,222,415	4.50%	new party	0	new party
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	632,813	2.33%	0.29%	0
			Janata Dal	415,287	1.53%	1.38%	0
			Total	2,270,515	8.36%	3.41%	0
	PMK+		All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	605,565	2.23%	new party	0	new party
			Pattali Makkal Katchi	552,118	2.03%	3.09%	0
			Total	1,157,683	4.26%	0.86%	0
	Independents			815,224	3.00%	1.57%	0
	Other Parties (14 parties)			909,395	3.32%	0.22%	0
Total				27,188,941	100.00%		39
Valid Votes				27,188,941	95.60%
Invalid Votes				1,249,944	4.40%
Total Votes				28,438,885	100.00%
Reigstered Voters/Turnout				42,488,022	66.93%	3.01%

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Note: TMC(M) is a spliter-group of INC, who carried with them 6 incumbent MPs from previous election
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the average % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India^[1]

^c-indicates sitting/incumbent M.P. from previous Lok Sabha (1991–1996)

Source: Thinkquest Library^[2]

• Elections in Tamil Nadu