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Karur #26GEN
Won
Natrayan.K
TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Margin
1,68,274 22.0 pp
votes
over Thambidurai.M (AIADM)
The contest
Electors10,72,924
Votes polled7,63,924
Turnout71.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.32 L49.6% of electorate
Female electors5.41 L50.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,016females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natrayan.K | TMCM | 4,09,830 | 53.60% | |
| 2 | Thambidurai.M | AIADM | 2,41,556 | 31.60% | |
| 3 | Moorthy.T.P | MDMK | 61,188 | 8.00% | |
| 4 | Madhukumar.R.K | BJP | 5,870 | 0.80% | |
| 5 | Arokkiam.S | IND | 4,338 | 0.60% | |
| 6 | Saravanan.B | IND | 1,344 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Moulana.K.B | IND | 1,011 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Manokaram.R | IND | 996 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Pitchaimuthu.S | IND | 920 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Ramasamy.S | IND | 833 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Pitchaimuthu.K | IND | 789 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Eramachandran.M | IND | 605 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Lokanathan.K | IND | 561 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Shanmugam.P | IND | 487 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 33,596, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 730,328 · NOTA n/a · published 763,924 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-12