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Sivakasi #35GEN
Won
K.Kalimuthu
AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMargin
1,37,068 17.5 pp
votes
over V.Gopalsamy (DMK)
The contest
Electors10,83,748
Votes polled7,83,252
Turnout72.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.38 L49.6% of electorate
Female electors5.46 L50.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,016females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.Kalimuthu | AIADM | 4,50,376 | 57.50% | |
| 2 | V.Gopalsamy | DMK | 3,13,308 | 40.00% | |
| 3 | J.S.Balaiah | PMK | 1,918 | 0.20% | |
| 4 | E.Chandran | JPJ | 1,346 | 0.20% | |
| 5 | S.Pannerselvam | IND | 920 | 0.10% | |
| 6 | S.Kanagavel | IND | 651 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | M.Manmathan | IND | 594 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | P.Pasupon | TMM | 580 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | C.Pandi | IND | 522 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | D.Periasamy | IND | 433 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | S.Marimuthu | IND | 422 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | A.Ramasamy | IND | 381 | 0.00% | |
| 13 | A.Appan Ramanujam | IND | 337 | 0.00% | |
| 14 | S.Thangiah | IND | 258 | 0.00% | |
| 15 | Pid Thaigarajan | IND | 255 | 0.00% | |
| 16 | R.Alagarwamy | IND | 219 | 0.00% | |
| 17 | T.K.Karuthappandian | IND | 184 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | P.Jeyabal | IND | 179 | 0.00% | |
| 19 | R.Dhanushkodi | IND | 177 | 0.00% | |
| 20 | N.Athinarayanan | IND | 167 | 0.00% | |
| 21 | A.S.Rajarathinam | IND | 163 | 0.00% | |
| 22 | S.Arumugam | IND | 144 | 0.00% | |
| 23 | S.Dakshanamoorthy | IND | 114 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,604, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 773,648 · NOTA n/a · published 783,252 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-12