Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Periyakulam #25GEN
Won
Muthiah .R
AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMargin
70,580 11.4 pp
votes
over Gandhimathy.R (DMK)
The contest
Electors10,79,255
Votes polled6,17,136
Turnout57.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.4 L50.0% of electorate
Female electors5.4 L50.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,000females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muthiah .R | AIADM | 3,19,672 | 51.80% | |
| 2 | Gandhimathy.R | DMK | 2,49,092 | 40.40% | |
| 3 | Mookiah.C | PT | 20,219 | 3.30% | |
| 4 | Deivendran, P.V.K | IND | 5,549 | 0.90% | |
| 5 | Veeraprakash.M | INC | 4,214 | 0.70% | |
| 6 | Murugan.B | IND | 1,231 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Palanichamy.K | IND | 1,130 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Murugaraj.S | IND | 469 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Elamurugan.K | IND | 252 | 0.00% | |
| 10 | Kamatchi.A | IND | 224 | 0.00% | |
| 11 | Murugan .V | IND | 200 | 0.00% | |
| 12 | Moovendan.A | IND | 147 | 0.00% | |
| 13 | Veeraswamy .R | IND | 100 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,637, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 602,499 · NOTA n/a · published 617,136 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-13