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Salem #16GEN
Won
Selvaganapathi, T.M.
AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMargin
25,411 3.4 pp
votes
over Ramamurthy, K. (TRC)
The contest
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
| # | 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
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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