Nilgiris #18GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Mathan M. Alias Master Mathan M.

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

60,385 8.4 pp

votes

over Balasubramoniyan S.R. (TMCM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors12,94,110

Votes polled7,18,202

Turnout55.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.56 L50.7% of electorate

Female electors6.38 L49.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 973females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Mathan M. Alias Master Mathan M.	BJP	3,22,818	44.90%
2	Balasubramoniyan S.R.	TMCM	2,62,433	36.50%
3	Prabhu R.	INC	1,06,588	14.80%
4	Bhaskaran M.	IND	1,416	0.20%
5	Ramesh C.	IND	1,103	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 23,844, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 694,358 · NOTA n/a · published 718,202 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998