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Won
Rangarajan Kumarmangalam
INC Indian National CongressMargin
2,41,770 36.2 pp
votes
over Karthikeyan M. (DMK)
The contest
Electors10,32,058
Votes polled6,68,594
Turnout64.8%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.23 L50.7% of electorate
Female electors5.09 L49.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
973females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rangarajan Kumarmangalam | INC | 4,00,936 | 60.00% | |
| 2 | Karthikeyan M. | DMK | 1,59,166 | 23.80% | |
| 3 | Sadasivam, K. | PMK | 85,628 | 12.80% | |
| 4 | Balasumbramaniam, A. | TK | 5,721 | 0.90% | |
| 5 | Krishnamurthy, N | IND | 1,186 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Perumal, K | IND | 1,137 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Pachamuthu, P. | TMM | 1,088 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Ramachadran, I | IND | 857 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Sugabnan, M.D. | IND | 576 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Kandasamy, M | IND | 403 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Palanisamy, M | IND | 371 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Sekar,s | IND | 355 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Radhakrishanan,r | IND | 334 | 0.00% | |
| 14 | Sivagnanam, S.T. | IND | 315 | 0.00% | |
| 15 | Villingiri, K.S. | IND | 279 | 0.00% | |
| 16 | Ashok Kumar V. | IND | 278 | 0.00% | |
| 17 | Chandrasekar,p. | IND | 255 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,709, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 658,885 · NOTA n/a · published 668,594 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-12