Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Ganesan V

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,76,266 24.3 pp

votes

over Elumalai.R (PMK)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors10,26,604

Votes polled7,25,700

Turnout70.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.2 L50.7% of electorate

Female electors5.06 L49.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 973females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ganesan V	DMK	3,36,164	46.30%
2	Elumalai.R	PMK	1,59,898	22.00%
3	Vallal Peruman P	INC	1,44,478	19.90%
4	Mahalingam.P.S	CPIM	28,646	3.90%
5	Kirubanidhi S.P	BJP	7,954	1.10%
6	Selvamani K. Tmt	IND	5,795	0.80%
7	Palani.S	IND	2,714	0.40%
8	Ashokan.A	IND	1,544	0.20%
9	Perumal.A	IND	1,338	0.20%
10	Chidambaram.S	IND	1,104	0.20%
11	Asokan, S	IND	812	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 35,253, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 690,447 · NOTA n/a · published 725,700 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996