Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Mayiladuturai #29SC
Won
Rajendiran P.V
TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Margin
1,53,544 22.2 pp
votes
over Mani Shankar Aiyar (INC)
The contest
Electors9,50,926
Votes polled6,90,094
Turnout72.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.85 L51.0% of electorate
Female electors4.66 L49.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
960females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajendiran P.V | TMCM | 3,67,778 | 53.30% | |
| 2 | Mani Shankar Aiyar | INC | 2,14,234 | 31.00% | |
| 3 | Kothai Kesavan | PMK | 38,656 | 5.60% | |
| 4 | Venkatesan A | MDMK | 30,209 | 4.40% | |
| 5 | Raja Pather S | IND | 3,030 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Paul Ramamurthy R | SS | 2,439 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Janarthanan T.K.S | CPIML | 2,215 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Ganesan V.G | IND | 901 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Abdul Jaleed A | IND | 816 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,816, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 660,278 · NOTA n/a · published 690,094 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-13