Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Elumalai Alias Ezhilmalai R.

PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi

Margin

7,955 1.2 pp

votes

over Ganesan V. (DMK)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,54,642

Votes polled6,84,155

Turnout64.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.33 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors5.22 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 978females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Elumalai Alias Ezhilmalai R.	PMK	3,05,372	44.60%
2	Ganesan V.	DMK	2,97,417	43.50%
3	Vallalperuman Dr. P.	INC	43,214	6.30%
4	Nagappan P.	BSP	19,922	2.90%
5	Jayaraj S.	IND	351	0.10%
6	Janakiraman V.	IND	318	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 17,561, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 666,594 · NOTA n/a · published 684,155 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998