Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 2004

Won

Thangkabalu K. V.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,75,627 23.7 pp

votes

over Rajasekaran. A (AIADM)

The contest

15 candidate rows

Electors12,51,141

Votes polled7,40,252

Turnout59.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.17 L49.3% of electorate

Female electors6.34 L50.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,027females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

15 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Thangkabalu K. V.	INC	4,44,591	60.10%
2	Rajasekaran. A	AIADM	2,68,964	36.30%
3	Shah Jahan. M A	IND	8,466	1.10%
4	Jaya Venugopal. C D	IND	4,346	0.60%
5	Balakrishnan. N	ABHM	4,101	0.60%
6	Rajavel. R	JP	3,916	0.50%
7	Rajavel. M	IND	1,334	0.20%
8	Asraf Ali. Dr. A K	IND	920	0.10%
9	Baskar. A	IND	829	0.10%
10	Rathinam. P	IND	747	0.10%
11	Basheer. J	IND	690	0.10%
12	Gopal. K A	IND	673	0.10%
13	Kannan. G A	IND	660	0.10%
14	Selvam. K	IND	611	0.10%
15	Syed Mohammed. M	IND	589	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -1,185, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 741,437 · NOTA n/a · published 740,252 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004