Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Madras Central #2GEN
Won
Murasoli Maran
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
71,727 12.0 pp
votes
over Jayakumar, D (AIADM)
The contest
Electors12,06,719
Votes polled5,97,280
Turnout49.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.25 L51.8% of electorate
Female electors5.82 L48.2% of electorate
Sex ratio
931females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murasoli Maran | DMK | 3,00,774 | 50.40% | |
| 2 | Jayakumar, D | AIADM | 2,29,047 | 38.30% | |
| 3 | Anbarasu, R | INC | 44,061 | 7.40% | |
| 4 | Natarajan, S | PT | 1,385 | 0.20% | |
| 5 | Sudarson | IND | 1,161 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Swaminathan | IND | 973 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Sava Mustafa (THIRUMATHI) | IND | 888 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Sivakumar, V | IND | 798 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Sivagnanasambandan .T | RJD | 714 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Ranganathan, S | IND | 622 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Loganathan, V.G | IND | 493 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Jagannathan, E | IND | 299 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Ramachandran, S | IND | 234 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 15,831, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 581,449 · NOTA n/a · published 597,280 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-12