Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Nilgiris #18GEN
Won
Prabhu R.
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,80,802 26.3 pp
votes
over Doraisamy S. (DMK)
The contest
Electors11,03,713
Votes polled6,86,963
Turnout62.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.64 L51.1% of electorate
Female electors5.4 L48.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
958females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prabhu R. | INC | 3,87,707 | 56.40% | |
| 2 | Doraisamy S. | DMK | 2,06,905 | 30.10% | |
| 3 | Mathan M. Master | BJP | 41,231 | 6.00% | |
| 4 | Mohamed Zackariah K.M. | ML | 7,160 | 1.00% | |
| 5 | Subburasu N. | IND | 2,619 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Vijayan K | IND | 2,028 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Pooranchandran R. | IND | 2,001 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Neelamalai Raja | IND | 1,791 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Ganesan M. | IND | 1,263 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Loganathan V. | IND | 1,086 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Karuppasami K. | IND | 1,047 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Subhulaxmi P. (W) | IND | 999 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Jayaraj N.B. | TMM | 900 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Chinnaraj S. | IND | 778 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Muthuswamy M. | IND | 730 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Mugilan M. | IND | 724 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Unnikrishnan | IND | 518 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | Mahendra Kumar M. | IND | 397 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 27,079, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 659,884 · NOTA n/a · published 686,963 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1991
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- 2026-09-12