Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ramamurthy K.

IND Independent

Margin

1,35,880 20.0 pp

votes

over Devadass R. (TMCM)

The contest

10 candidate rows

Electors11,78,177

Votes polled6,79,778

Turnout57.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.95 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors5.83 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 981females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

10 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ramamurthy K.	IND	3,65,557	53.80%
2	Devadass R.	TMCM	2,29,677	33.80%
3	Thangkabalu K.V.	INC	48,027	7.10%
4	Sampathkumar P.	IND	10,311	1.50%
5	Kesavarajan S.	ABP	2,091	0.30%
6	Padmanabhan A.G.	BSP	1,710	0.30%
7	Marimuthu P.	IND	550	0.10%
8	Palanisamy K.	IND	495	0.10%
9	Singaravelu C.	IND	405	0.10%
10	Periasamy T.	IND	150	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 20,805, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 658,973 · NOTA n/a · published 679,778 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998