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TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Senapathi Gounder, A.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

80,913 12.8 pp

votes

over Rajkumar Mandradiar (DMK)

The contest

51 candidate rows

Electors10,33,981

Votes polled6,32,454

Turnout61.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.2 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors5.14 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 988females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

Candidates

51 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Senapathi Gounder, A.	INC	3,16,938	50.10%
2	Rajkumar Mandradiar	DMK	2,36,025	37.30%
3	Usha Rajandhar	IND	38,275	6.10%
4	Senapathy Gounder	IND	4,729	0.70%
5	Triuvengadam, G	IND	2,025	0.30%
6	Rajendran, G	IND	1,703	0.30%
7	Naaguvel, P	IND	1,588	0.30%
8	Savarimuthu, S.A.	JPJ	1,561	0.20%
9	Jeyaraj, K.M	IND	1,509	0.20%
10	Thagamuthu, C.	IND	1,260	0.20%
11	Mohan, S.S.R.	IND	1,151	0.20%
12	Ponnaiah, K.	PMK	1,129	0.20%
13	Rajakrishnan, K.	IND	971	0.20%
14	Kumarasamy, S.P.	IND	909	0.10%
15	Chelladurai, P.	IND	902	0.10%
16	Palanisamy	IND	836	0.10%
17	Francis Xavier	IND	825	0.10%
18	Pariasamy, T.	IND	772	0.10%
19	Rengaswamy, K.	IND	666	0.10%
20	Selvan Nadar, P.	IND	619	0.10%
21	Nageswaran,v	TMM	604	0.10%
22	Sundra Rajan, D.	IND	600	0.10%
23	Punithavathi Kumaravelu, K.	IND	587	0.10%
24	Krishnasamy Gounder, P.	IND	541	0.10%
25	Karthikeya, P.M.	IND	525	0.10%
26	Pandi, P.	IND	522	0.10%
27	Palanisamy, M.	IND	518	0.10%
28	Gajini Mohamed, A.R.	IND	491	0.10%
29	Karuthapandian, T.K.	IND	463	0.10%
30	Saminathan. M	IND	457	0.10%
31	Kilanmakkarur Girdathi, Anandar	IND	434	0.10%
32	Nahoor Meeran Peermohamed, U.	IND	408	0.10%
33	Ramasamy, A	IND	405	0.10%
34	Chakarvarthy Pandiyar, A.	IND	399	0.10%
35	Perumal, A.	IND	367	0.10%
36	Marikannu, Durai	IND	342	0.10%
37	Palanichamy, K.	IND	318	0.10%
38	Palanichamy.U	IND	316	0.00%
39	Rengasamy, T.L.	IND	275	0.00%
40	Chinnaswamy, A.P.	IND	268	0.00%
41	Mugilan M.	IND	266	0.00%
42	Kuppusamy, S.P	IND	265	0.00%
43	Jothikrishnan, M.R.	IND	244	0.00%
44	Perumal, K.	IND	218	0.00%
45	Appanaicker, M	IND	211	0.00%
46	Gurusamy, R.	IND	206	0.00%
47	Kangavel, S.	IND	163	0.00%
48	Veerappa Gounder, V.T.R.	IND	151	0.00%
49	Kumari Jaganathan, J.	IND	144	0.00%
50	Manmathan, M.	IND	118	0.00%
51	Verasingam, A.	IND	113	0.00%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,122, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 625,332 · NOTA n/a · published 632,454 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989

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