Pudukkottai #32GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Siva,n.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,77,873 21.5 pp

votes

over Swaminathan, V.N. (INC)

The contest

22 candidate rows

Electors11,24,547

Votes polled8,28,411

Turnout73.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.61 L49.9% of electorate

Female electors5.64 L50.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,005females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

22 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Siva,n.	DMK	3,98,209	48.10%
2	Swaminathan, V.N.	INC	2,20,336	26.60%
3	Pushparaj.T.	AIICT	61,830	7.50%
4	Karthikeyan, R.	MDMK	60,405	7.30%
5	Shanmuganathan.K.	BJP	16,147	1.90%
6	Jahuber I.	IND	8,320	1.00%
7	Nagarajan, C.	IND	2,930	0.40%
8	Sankaran, K.	IND	2,860	0.30%
9	Panneer Selvam .M	IND	2,692	0.30%
10	Duraiarasan, A.	IND	2,314	0.30%
11	Ganapathy,s.	IND	2,119	0.30%
12	Satheeswaran, R	IND	1,356	0.20%
13	Panneeer Selvam, C.	IND	1,282	0.20%
14	Shanmuganathan, V.	IND	1,173	0.10%
15	Kavignar Kumar	IND	1,123	0.10%
16	Arokiasamy, A.	IND	1,121	0.10%
17	Thilagavathy.S.	IND	1,116	0.10%
18	Abdul Salem M.	IND	974	0.10%
19	Srinivasan, S.	IND	914	0.10%
20	Rajamanickam, N.	IND	686	0.10%
21	Ibrahim Gundabai, U.	IND	651	0.10%
22	Balakrishnan, C.	IND	608	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 39,245, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 789,166 · NOTA n/a · published 828,411 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996