Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Thanjavur #31GEN
Won
Palanimanickam S.S
DMK Dravida Munetra KazhagamMargin
2,00,428 28.6 pp
votes
over Thulasiah Vandayar K (INC)
The contest
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
| # | 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
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
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