Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Gobichettipalayam #19SC
Won
Shanmugasundaram V.P
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
1,42,968 20.7 pp
votes
over Narayanan P.G (AIADM)
The contest
Electors9,71,883
Votes polled6,91,388
Turnout71.1%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.92 L50.6% of electorate
Female electors4.8 L49.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
975females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanmugasundaram V.P | DMK | 3,53,982 | 51.20% | |
| 2 | Narayanan P.G | AIADM | 2,11,014 | 30.50% | |
| 3 | Nacchimuthu Nadar C | PMK | 38,368 | 5.50% | |
| 4 | Palanisamy B | MDMK | 34,096 | 4.90% | |
| 5 | Chandrasekar A | BJP | 11,104 | 1.60% | |
| 6 | Ponnusamy L.P | IND | 3,086 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Nallappannadi | IND | 3,066 | 0.40% | |
| 8 | Selwakumar Prabha L | IND | 1,922 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Chinnaponnu Vathiyar V.M | IND | 1,595 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Chandrasekar S.P | IND | 1,453 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Durai J.P | IND | 1,215 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Pachiappan K.R | IND | 1,040 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Nallasamy Gounder Ks | IND | 912 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Balasubramanian P | IND | 911 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Rangasamy K | IND | 620 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Ponnusamy S.R.T.K | IND | 551 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Sheik Davood A.M | IND | 426 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 26,027, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 665,361 · NOTA n/a · published 691,388 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12