Tiruchengode #17GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Palaniswamy K.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,04,809 13.4 pp

votes

over Ramalingam K.P. Dr. (DMK)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors14,60,292

Votes polled7,81,858

Turnout53.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors7.34 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors7.26 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 989females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Palaniswamy K.	AIADM	4,14,992	53.10%
2	Ramalingam K.P. Dr.	DMK	3,10,183	39.70%
3	Palanisamy P.	INC	28,421	3.60%
4	Backiyam D.	PT	2,442	0.30%
5	Selvam S.V.	IND	1,483	0.20%
6	Thillaikkarasi Pon.S.	IND	622	0.10%
7	Sengodan R.	IND	482	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 23,233, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 758,625 · NOTA n/a · published 781,858 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998