Coimbatore #20GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Ramanathan M.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

2,62,787 31.0 pp

votes

over Kuppuswamy C.K. (INC)

The contest

30 candidate rows

Electors13,17,120

Votes polled8,48,217

Turnout64.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.83 L51.8% of electorate

Female electors6.34 L48.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 929females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

30 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ramanathan M.	DMK	4,63,807	54.70%
2	Kuppuswamy C.K.	INC	2,01,020	23.70%
3	Natarajan P.R.	CPIM	85,355	10.10%
4	Natarajan K.S.	BJP	43,289	5.10%
5	Guruswami Siddhan	ATMK	2,873	0.30%
6	Chelladurai P.	IND	2,627	0.30%
7	Tamilselvan S	IND	2,396	0.30%
8	Subaramaniam .N.	IND	2,270	0.30%
9	Arunan.Ki.	SS	1,288	0.20%
10	Durairaj G	IND	1,245	0.10%
11	Sivashanmugam S	IND	1,092	0.10%
12	Noormuhamad A	IND	907	0.10%
13	Palanisamy S	IND	856	0.10%
14	Chinnaponnu Vathiyar V.M.	IND	695	0.10%
15	Sakthivel M	IND	679	0.10%
16	Natarajan R.Thiyagi	IND	660	0.10%
17	Sunderrajan S	IND	579	0.10%
18	Karuppusamy.A.	IND	550	0.10%
19	Ramchandran .A.	IND	501	0.10%
20	Thangavelu R	IND	491	0.10%
21	Ramaswamy O	SP	465	0.10%
22	Palanisamy V.R.Raju	IND	459	0.10%
23	Ramaswamy M	IND	392	0.00%
24	Arumugam C.K.	IND	342	0.00%
25	Jayabal A.	IND	339	0.00%
25	Prabhakaran S	IND	339	0.00%
27	Shanmugam D	IND	332	0.00%
28	Loganathan K.	IND	326	0.00%
29	Ponnusamy P.K.	IND	265	0.00%
30	Sampath S	IND	226	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 31,552, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 816,665 · NOTA n/a · published 848,217 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996