Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Namakkal #16GEN
Won
Gandhiselvan.S
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
1,02,431 12.1 pp
votes
over Vairam Tamilarasi.V (AIADM)
The contest
Electors10,75,526
Votes polled8,46,216
Turnout78.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electorsnot recorded
Female electorsnot recorded
Sex ratio
not recorded
Poll date16 Apr 2009
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gandhiselvan.S | DMK | 3,71,476 | 43.90% | |
| 2 | Vairam Tamilarasi.V | AIADM | 2,69,045 | 31.80% | |
| 3 | Maheswaran.N | DMDK | 79,420 | 9.40% | |
| 4 | Devarasan.R | KNMK | 52,433 | 6.20% | |
| 5 | Thaniyarasu.U | IND | 24,230 | 2.90% | |
| 6 | Suresh Gandhi.K | BJP | 7,939 | 0.90% | |
| 7 | Lingappan.V | UMK | 6,907 | 0.80% | |
| 8 | Navalmani.A.N | IND | 4,311 | 0.50% | |
| 9 | Harigara Sivam.T.A | BSP | 3,487 | 0.40% | |
| 10 | Yogaraj.R | IND | 3,279 | 0.40% | |
| 11 | Thangavel.S | IND | 2,549 | 0.30% | |
| 12 | Sengodan.P | IND | 2,489 | 0.30% | |
| 13 | Vivekanandham.K.S | IND | 2,296 | 0.30% | |
| 14 | Mathiyalagan.N | IND | 2,292 | 0.30% | |
| 15 | Ramasamy.N | IND | 1,841 | 0.20% | |
| 16 | Ravi.R | IND | 1,755 | 0.20% | |
| 17 | Tharmalingam.M | IND | 1,503 | 0.20% | |
| 18 | Subramaniam.R.P | IND | 1,284 | 0.20% | |
| 19 | Kumar | IND | 1,241 | 0.10% | |
| 20 | Selvaraj.K | SP | 1,239 | 0.10% | |
| 21 | Subramani.S | IND | 1,059 | 0.10% | |
| 22 | Karthikeyan.P | IND | 839 | 0.10% | |
| 23 | Panneerselvam.S | IND | 799 | 0.10% | |
| 24 | Ravi.A | IND | 786 | 0.10% | |
| 25 | Murali.V | IND | 745 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 972, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 845,244 · NOTA n/a · published 846,216 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2009
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