Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Madras North #1SC
Won
D. Pandian
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,13,771 13.9 pp
votes
over N. V. M. Somu (DMK)
The contest
Electors13,45,150
Votes polled8,19,293
Turnout60.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors7.17 L53.3% of electorate
Female electors6.28 L46.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
877females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D. Pandian | INC | 4,45,197 | 54.30% | |
| 2 | N. V. M. Somu | DMK | 3,31,426 | 40.50% | |
| 3 | Rama Muthukumar | PMK | 21,537 | 2.60% | |
| 4 | M. Meerankhan | JPJ | 1,482 | 0.20% | |
| 5 | C. H. Vinoba Gandhi | TMM | 1,268 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | V. S. Prakasam | IND | 897 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | Kumari Nambi | IND | 808 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | B. Nathan | IND | 737 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | K. Anandaraj | IND | 704 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | R.Seran | LDB | 704 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | D. A. Varada Desigan | IND | 648 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | K. Samsudeen | IND | 627 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | M. Sarangapani | IND | 608 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | K. Manogaran | IND | 566 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | P. Thamilarasan | IND | 536 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | D. Rajendran | IND | 508 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | P. Abdul Parit | IND | 483 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | M. Kailasam | SLL | 391 | 0.00% | |
| 19 | G. Kanniappan | IND | 358 | 0.00% | |
| 20 | Nagabhushanam | IND | 356 | 0.00% | |
| 21 | Manik Chand Nahar | IND | 316 | 0.00% | |
| 22 | E. Munuswamy | IND | 292 | 0.00% | |
| 23 | M. Nityanandham | IND | 263 | 0.00% | |
| 24 | S. S. Mani | IND | 262 | 0.00% | |
| 25 | D. Victoria | IND | 232 | 0.00% | |
| 26 | T. Angappa Rao | IND | 226 | 0.00% | |
| 27 | C. V. Padmanabhan | IND | 194 | 0.00% | |
| 28 | George Komakan | IND | 135 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,532, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 811,761 · NOTA n/a · published 819,293 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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