Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Tiruchengode #17GEN
Won
K.P.Ramalingam
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
1,93,188 22.5 pp
votes
over Kumarasamy A.V. (AIADM)
The contest
Electors13,22,216
Votes polled8,57,452
Turnout64.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.64 L50.2% of electorate
Female electors6.58 L49.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
990females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.P.Ramalingam | DMK | 4,71,533 | 55.00% | |
| 2 | Kumarasamy A.V. | AIADM | 2,78,345 | 32.50% | |
| 3 | P.Balakrishnan | MDMK | 40,041 | 4.70% | |
| 4 | K.Perumal | AIICT | 18,677 | 2.20% | |
| 5 | Ramalingam S.T. | BJP | 10,264 | 1.20% | |
| 6 | Karuppanna Gounder K. | IND | 2,148 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Subramani.P. | IND | 1,585 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Subramanian.C. | IND | 1,450 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Palaniappan S. | IND | 1,384 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Sadasivam M.S. | IND | 1,212 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Samuel Raj.G. | IND | 1,098 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Rajachandrasekar N. | IND | 1,085 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Shivakumar.A. | IND | 906 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Arumugam K.K. | IND | 720 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Ganga Naidu P. | IND | 689 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Sundaresan.A. | IND | 668 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Madeswaran K. | IND | 427 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | Venugopal D. | IND | 243 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 24,977, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 832,475 · NOTA n/a · published 857,452 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12