Pudukkottai #32GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Paramasivam, Raja

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

30,520 3.9 pp

votes

over Siva, P.N. (DMK)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,84,609

Votes polled7,91,405

Turnout66.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.89 L49.7% of electorate

Female electors5.96 L50.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,011females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Paramasivam, Raja	AIADM	2,88,072	36.40%
2	Siva, P.N.	DMK	2,57,552	32.50%
3	Thirunavukkarasu, S.	MGRAD	2,26,416	28.60%
4	Chockalingam, M.R.	IND	895	0.10%
5	Velappan, C.	IND	448	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,022, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 773,383 · NOTA n/a · published 791,405 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998