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TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1999
Won

Selvaganapathi, T.M.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Margin
25,411 3.4 pp
votes

over Ramamurthy, K. (TRC)

The contest

21 candidate rows
Electors12,57,383
Votes polled7,43,934
Turnout59.2%
NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.36 L50.6% of electorate
Female electors6.21 L49.4% of electorate
Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

Candidates

21 rows · by votes
# Candidate Party Votes Share  
1 Selvaganapathi, T.M. AIADM 3,63,689 48.90%
2 Ramamurthy, K. TRC 3,38,278 45.50%
3 Devadass, R. TMCM 19,604 2.60%
4 Selvakumaran, P.M. IND 2,678 0.40%
5 Arjunan, M. TNPWP 1,631 0.20%
6 Sadhasivam, R. IND 946 0.10%
7 Ashokan, A. IND 672 0.10%
8 Chandramohan, A. CPIML 652 0.10%
9 Sampath Kumar, P. IND 462 0.10%
10 Murugan, B.L. IND 434 0.10%
11 Kannan, K. IND 395 0.10%
12 Ramamoorthi, C. CMK 385 0.10%
13 Arivumani, K. BMC 384 0.10%
14 Kesavarajan, S. ABP 248 0.00%
15 Periyasamy, T. IND 235 0.00%
16 Mohammad Nazeerudeen, D.M. IND 129 0.00%
17 Manickam, R. IND 123 0.00%
18 Chinathambi, P. IND 107 0.00%
19 Manimeghalan, M.A.K. TMM 105 0.00%
20 Srinivasan, R. IND 81 0.00%
21 Rajendran, S.K. IND 39 0.00%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,657, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 731,277  ·  NOTA n/a  ·  published 743,934  ·  neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999
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Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12

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