Nagapattinam #30GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Selvarasu, M.

CPI Communist Party Of India

Margin

1,31,303 19.9 pp

votes

over Gopal, Dr. K. (AIADM)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors10,21,037

Votes polled6,61,129

Turnout64.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.15 L50.4% of electorate

Female electors5.07 L49.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 984females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Selvarasu, M.	CPI	3,75,589	56.80%
2	Gopal, Dr. K.	AIADM	2,44,286	36.90%
3	Thiagarajan, M.	INC	15,837	2.40%
4	Jeevanandam, G.	PT	3,354	0.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 22,063, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 639,066 · NOTA n/a · published 661,129 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998