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Karur #26GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1989
Won

Thambithurai, M.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Margin
2,38,751 31.9 pp
votes

over Palanisamy. K.C. (DMK)

The contest

8 candidate rows
Electors10,50,778
Votes polled7,48,242
Turnout71.2%
NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.24 L49.8% of electorate
Female electors5.27 L50.2% of electorate
Sex ratio 1,006females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

Candidates

8 rows · by votes
# Candidate Party Votes Share  
1 Thambithurai, M. AIADM 4,84,492 64.80%
2 Palanisamy. K.C. DMK 2,45,741 32.80%
3 Sakthivel, M PMK 3,679 0.50%
4 Subburathinam, T. IND 1,885 0.30%
5 Mahoharah, M.V. TMM 1,510 0.20%
6 Karthikeyan ,t. IND 444 0.10%
7 Ramachandran, M IND 441 0.10%
8 Appavoo, M. IND 404 0.10%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,646, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 738,596  ·  NOTA n/a  ·  published 748,242  ·  neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12

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