Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Madras North #1SC
Won
Somu N.V.N
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
3,89,617 44.9 pp
votes
over Pandian.D (INC)
The contest
Electors15,53,112
Votes polled8,67,464
Turnout55.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors8.11 L52.2% of electorate
Female electors7.42 L47.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
916females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somu N.V.N | DMK | 5,59,048 | 64.40% | |
| 2 | Pandian.D | INC | 1,69,431 | 19.50% | |
| 3 | Varada Rajan W.R | CPIM | 66,479 | 7.70% | |
| 4 | Mohan V. Bharathamatha | BJP | 19,113 | 2.20% | |
| 5 | Mahadevan.G | PMK | 16,143 | 1.90% | |
| 6 | Charles.G | IND | 2,192 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Udayan.P | IND | 1,818 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Ramachandiran.M | SS | 1,528 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Jalaludeen.M | IND | 993 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Abdul Farook.P | IND | 587 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Swaminathan.K.R | MMS | 572 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Sundarraj.P | IND | 542 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Sheila Rajarathnam | PHK | 501 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Nithyanandham.M | IND | 475 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Lakshmanan K.K | IND | 458 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Abdul Rahman K.A | IND | 450 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Kumar D.S | IND | 418 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | Karuppiah.M | IND | 395 | 0.00% | |
| 19 | Govintharaj.R | IND | 371 | 0.00% | |
| 20 | Ramachandran Mu. Pavalar | IND | 370 | 0.00% | |
| 21 | Perumal.J | IND | 358 | 0.00% | |
| 22 | Gnana Sigamani.V | IND | 315 | 0.00% | |
| 23 | Palani.K | IND | 307 | 0.00% | |
| 24 | Jagadisan | IND | 305 | 0.00% | |
| 25 | Palani Sundaresan | IND | 301 | 0.00% | |
| 26 | Elengovan S.E | IND | 289 | 0.00% | |
| 27 | Manak Chand Nahar | IND | 276 | 0.00% | |
| 27 | Asokan.N | IND | 276 | 0.00% | |
| 29 | Agarwal Alias Shanker | IND | 269 | 0.00% | |
| 30 | Jagannathan.E | IND | 224 | 0.00% | |
| 31 | Kalyanasundaram.W.G | IND | 222 | 0.00% | |
| 32 | Thamilarasan.P | IND | 206 | 0.00% | |
| 33 | Umesh Kumar Jain C | IND | 164 | 0.00% | |
| 34 | Thampi Latif | IND | 147 | 0.00% | |
| 35 | Munuswamy.E | IND | 97 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 21,824, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 845,640 · NOTA n/a · published 867,464 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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