Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Periyakulam #25GEN
Won
Mothiah, R.
AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMargin
2,21,404 33.4 pp
votes
over Mahandiran, A.K.Cumbum (DMK)
The contest
Electors10,15,762
Votes polled6,63,502
Turnout65.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.09 L50.1% of electorate
Female electors5.07 L49.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
995females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mothiah, R. | AIADM | 4,02,691 | 60.70% | |
| 2 | Mahandiran, A.K.Cumbum | DMK | 1,81,287 | 27.30% | |
| 3 | Gunesekaran, S. | PMK | 62,536 | 9.40% | |
| 4 | Raju. K. | IND | 2,538 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | Sankaralingam, P. | TMM | 1,530 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Subbaian, P. | IND | 879 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | Mothiah, S.K. | IND | 742 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Suruliveiu, K. | IND | 706 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Manimaran, K.A. | IND | 623 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Thiraviyam Pillai V.A. | IND | 537 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Mohamed Sheriff, M. | IND | 453 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Kaja Mohideen, S. | IND | 411 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Najamutheen, P. | IND | 271 | 0.00% | |
| 14 | Palanisamy, V. | IND | 241 | 0.00% | |
| 15 | Palanichamy, K. | IND | 224 | 0.00% | |
| 16 | Kartikayan T. | IND | 210 | 0.00% | |
| 17 | Aruiraj, P.C. | IND | 209 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | Thangaraj, K. | IND | 180 | 0.00% | |
| 19 | Rajendran, P. | IND | 144 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,090, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 656,412 · NOTA n/a · published 663,502 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12