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Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1999
Won

Ponnuswamy, E.

PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi
Margin
1,19,563 16.3 pp
votes

over Thirumavalavan, R. (TMCM)

The contest

6 candidate rows
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

6 rows · by votes
# Candidate Party Votes Share  
1 Ponnuswamy, E. PMK 3,45,331 47.10%
2 Thirumavalavan, R. TMCM 2,25,768 30.80%
3 Sumathi Udayakumar, Thirumathi, T. INC 1,50,794 20.60%
4 Muruganantham, D. IND 1,606 0.20%
5 Kanagasabai, R. IND 422 0.10%
6 Kamaraj, V. IND 384 0.10%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

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
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12

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