Periyakulam #25GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Gnanagurusamy R

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,31,337 19.1 pp

votes

over Ramasamy R (AIADM)

The contest

21 candidate rows

Electors10,22,160

Votes polled6,86,544

Turnout67.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.12 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors5.1 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 997females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

21 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Gnanagurusamy R	DMK	3,26,665	47.60%
2	Ramasamy R	AIADM	1,95,328	28.50%
3	Eramakrishnan N	MDMK	91,601	13.30%
4	Periaswamy Thevar M	BJP	20,035	2.90%
5	Thangaraj P	PMK	11,503	1.70%
6	Palanisamy K	IND	9,317	1.40%
7	Surulivelu K	IND	4,162	0.60%
8	Ramasamy K	IND	1,131	0.20%
9	Noortheen P.K	PDP	691	0.10%
10	Narayanan V K	IND	659	0.10%
11	Elango K	IND	632	0.10%
12	Rajendran P	IND	586	0.10%
13	Pandian P	IND	545	0.10%
14	Ahmed Zuber M	IND	544	0.10%
15	Chellappa S	IND	402	0.10%
16	Paranjothi K	IND	361	0.10%
17	Ilango S	IND	334	0.00%
18	Manikandan R	IND	300	0.00%
19	Xavier M A	IND	291	0.00%
20	Nagarajan K	IND	271	0.00%
21	Murugan M	IND	134	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 21,052, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 665,492 · NOTA n/a · published 686,544 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996