Palani #22GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ganeshamurthi A.

MDMK Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

27,437 4.4 pp

votes

over Kaarvendhan S.K. (TMCM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,17,611

Votes polled6,26,656

Turnout56.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.6 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors5.58 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 996females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ganeshamurthi A.	MDMK	2,86,300	45.70%
2	Kaarvendhan S.K.	TMCM	2,58,863	41.30%
3	Venugopal K.S.	INC	61,089	9.70%
4	Palanisamy N.	IND	1,084	0.20%
5	Ponnusamy S.	IND	714	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,606, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 608,050 · NOTA n/a · published 626,656 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998