Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1984

Won

Rangarajan Kumar Mangalam

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

2,36,175 43.1 pp

votes

over Kandasamy M.A. (JP)

The contest

12 candidate rows

Electors7,66,792

Votes polled5,48,043

Turnout71.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.87 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors3.79 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 979females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

12 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Rangarajan Kumar Mangalam	INC	3,59,819	65.70%
2	Kandasamy M.A.	JP	1,23,644	22.60%
3	Sambalingam T.	IND	6,808	1.20%
4	Ekambaram O. K.	IND	6,218	1.10%
5	Raju P.	IND	5,785	1.10%
6	Vachravel A.M.	IND	3,445	0.60%
7	Sengottuvelu M.	IND	3,430	0.60%
8	Selvaraj G.	IND	2,752	0.50%
9	Thangaraju R.	IND	2,660	0.50%
10	Mani G.	IND	2,276	0.40%
11	Ariyaputhran S.	IND	1,677	0.30%
12	Thulsi Ramachari P.	IND	1,349	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 28,180, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 519,863 · NOTA n/a · published 548,043 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1984