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Thanjavur #31GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996
Won

Palanimanickam S.S

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam
Margin
2,00,428 28.6 pp
votes

over Thulasiah Vandayar K (INC)

The contest

15 candidate rows
Electors9,68,000
Votes polled7,00,830
Turnout72.4%
NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.85 L50.1% of electorate
Female electors4.83 L49.9% of electorate
Sex ratio 996females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

Candidates

15 rows · by votes
# Candidate Party Votes Share  
1 Palanimanickam S.S DMK 3,90,010 55.60%
2 Thulasiah Vandayar K INC 1,89,582 27.10%
3 Ramamurthi A Thanjai JD 40,259 5.70%
4 Sozhamannar Kanakaraja K IND 10,948 1.60%
5 Shanmugavel K IND 7,821 1.10%
6 Jackiria K.M PMK 7,120 1.00%
7 Arunachalam S. BJP 6,015 0.90%
8 Rajamohamed S IND 2,576 0.40%
9 Sivaswamy R IND 2,046 0.30%
10 Rajarathinam P.K IND 1,641 0.20%
11 Kumaresan G IND 1,631 0.20%
12 Munusamy M IND 1,479 0.20%
13 Singaravel A IND 1,298 0.20%
14 Jawahar P.D IND 469 0.10%
15 Kanakasabai N IND 426 0.10%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 37,509, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 663,321  ·  NOTA n/a  ·  published 700,830  ·  neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-13

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