Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Chidambaram #12GEN
Won
Ponnuswamy, E.
PMK Pattali Makkal KatchiMargin
1,19,563 16.3 pp
votes
over Thirumavalavan, R. (TMCM)
The contest
Electors11,10,229
Votes polled7,32,994
Turnout66.0%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.6 L50.5% of electorate
Female electors5.5 L49.5% of electorate
Sex ratio
981females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,689, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 724,305 · NOTA n/a · published 732,994 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999
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- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12