Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 2004

Won

Ponnuswamy, E.

PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi

Margin

87,651 11.8 pp

votes

over Thirumaavalavan Thol (JDU)

The contest

13 candidate rows

Electors11,25,487

Votes polled7,41,925

Turnout65.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.53 L49.1% of electorate

Female electors5.73 L50.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,037females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

13 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ponnuswamy, E.	PMK	3,43,424	46.30%
2	Thirumaavalavan Thol	JDU	2,55,773	34.50%
3	Periasamy. D	BJP	1,13,974	15.40%
4	Ramalingam. D	IND	6,051	0.80%
5	Jawaharlal Nehru. P	JP	5,526	0.70%
6	Kumar. K	BSP	5,092	0.70%
7	Ponnusamy. V E	IND	3,159	0.40%
8	Periyasamy. S A	IND	2,828	0.40%
9	Ramamoorthy.	IND	2,003	0.30%
10	Kanagasabai. R	IND	1,758	0.20%
11	Archunan. T	IND	1,486	0.20%
12	Purushothman. K	IND	1,274	0.20%
13	Thiravidamani. S	IND	1,062	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -1,485, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 743,410 · NOTA n/a · published 741,925 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004