Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Devadass.R

TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)

Margin

1,20,885 17.1 pp

votes

over Thangkabalu K.V (INC)

The contest

34 candidate rows

Electors10,80,762

Votes polled7,06,406

Turnout65.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.46 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors5.35 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 979females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

34 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Devadass.R	TMCM	3,15,277	44.60%
2	Thangkabalu K.V	INC	1,94,392	27.50%
3	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.P	AIICT	1,20,345	17.00%
4	Rajamani.N	BJP	9,538	1.40%
5	Mohanraj.B	MDMK	6,245	0.90%
6	Murugesan.A.C	IND	4,927	0.70%
7	Eswaran.S	IND	1,944	0.30%
8	Madeswaran.A	RPI	1,218	0.20%
9	Chinnasamy.V	IND	1,172	0.20%
10	Manickam C	IND	1,164	0.20%
11	Rajendran.A	IND	1,063	0.20%
12	Balavenkatesh.M	IND	1,009	0.10%
13	Nagamanickam.Bala	IND	988	0.10%
14	Sait Musthafa.S	IND	911	0.10%
15	Mahabook Shariff.A	IND	897	0.10%
16	Ganesan.K	IND	784	0.10%
16	Krishnamoorthy.N	IND	784	0.10%
18	Ram Mohan.V	IND	755	0.10%
19	Selvakumaran.P.M	IND	698	0.10%
20	Sampath Kumar.P	IND	644	0.10%
21	Meganathan.S.B	IND	571	0.10%
22	Palanisamy.K	IND	540	0.10%
23	Kandasami.M	IND	466	0.10%
24	Ramamoorthy.B	IND	456	0.10%
25	Krishnamoorthy.N	IND	417	0.10%
26	Sivagnanam.S.T	IND	406	0.10%
27	Mayan.P	IND	399	0.10%
28	Annamalai.K	IND	397	0.10%
29	Padmanapan.K.M	IND	396	0.10%
30	Chakkarapani.N	IND	318	0.00%
31	Annamalai.S	IND	245	0.00%
32	Vedanayagam Rama	IND	188	0.00%
33	Venkatachalam.S	IND	183	0.00%
34	Velliangiri K.S Veerapandi	IND	80	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 36,589, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 669,817 · NOTA n/a · published 706,406 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996