Madras Central #2GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Murasoli Maran

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

2,80,467 46.9 pp

votes

over G.K.J.Bharathi (INC)

The contest

31 candidate rows

Electors10,36,649

Votes polled5,98,008

Turnout57.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.36 L51.7% of electorate

Female electors5.01 L48.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 934females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

31 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Murasoli Maran	DMK	4,03,867	67.50%
2	G.K.J.Bharathi	INC	1,23,400	20.60%
3	Prof. S.Krishnasamy	MDMK	21,682	3.60%
4	G.Kumaravelu	BJP	19,948	3.30%
5	D.Anbazhagan	PMK	7,654	1.30%
6	S.Alwar	IND	894	0.10%
7	N.Sampath Raj	IND	689	0.10%
8	S.Ranganathan	IND	611	0.10%
9	Ajay Kumar Goenka	IND	603	0.10%
10	K.C.Rajan	IND	502	0.10%
11	L.Manoharan	IND	424	0.10%
12	Venkatesan @ Ambeth Venkatesh	IND	412	0.10%
13	G.Chitrarasu	IND	393	0.10%
14	M.Ethiraj Paraiyan @ M.Ethiraj	IND	344	0.10%
15	P.K.Soundarrajan	MELPH	333	0.10%
16	R.Baluswamy	IND	292	0.00%
17	M.Ramanathan	IND	286	0.00%
18	K.K.Dhandapani	IND	261	0.00%
19	V.Sashikumar	IND	249	0.00%
20	O.A.Varada Desigan	IND	240	0.00%
21	Kalaivan	IND	236	0.00%
22	S.Vincent Nadar	IND	228	0.00%
23	N.Harikaran	IND	217	0.00%
24	Kiruthivasan	IND	215	0.00%
25	M.T.Mohan	IND	199	0.00%
26	T.K.M.Sundaresan	IND	180	0.00%
27	C.Subramaniam	IND	177	0.00%
28	T.S.Loganathan	IND	164	0.00%
29	S.Selvaraj	IND	162	0.00%
30	A.Raajalingam	IND	154	0.00%
31	A.K.Inas	IND	133	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,859, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 585,149 · NOTA n/a · published 598,008 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996