Palani #22GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Kaarvendhan .S.K

TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)

Margin

1,92,633 26.2 pp

votes

over Kumarasamy .P (AIADM)

The contest

21 candidate rows

Electors10,67,963

Votes polled7,35,759

Turnout68.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.36 L50.2% of electorate

Female electors5.31 L49.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 991females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

21 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kaarvendhan .S.K	TMCM	4,05,782	55.20%
2	Kumarasamy .P	AIADM	2,13,149	29.00%
3	Ponniyin Selvan .V	MDMK	65,489	8.90%
4	Thirumalaisamy .K	BJP	8,873	1.20%
5	Francis Xavier .A	IND	2,829	0.40%
6	Muthuraj .R	IND	1,592	0.20%
7	Balasubramaniam .K	IND	1,280	0.20%
8	Mohamad Hussain .A	IND	1,136	0.20%
9	Kumar .C	IND	1,026	0.10%
10	Karuppuchamy .P	IND	732	0.10%
11	Kailasam .K	IND	720	0.10%
12	Murugan .P	IND	618	0.10%
13	Chinnasamy .L	IND	535	0.10%
14	Balasubramani .P	IND	480	0.10%
15	Muniappan .M	IND	442	0.10%
16	Thangavel .M	IND	411	0.10%
17	Thangaraj .V	IND	364	0.00%
18	Abdul Khalaam Azad .K	IND	339	0.00%
19	Chandrasekaran .S	IND	314	0.00%
20	Jothinandhakumar .R.N	IND	267	0.00%
21	Ramaraja .G	IND	175	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,206, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 706,553 · NOTA n/a · published 735,759 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996