Tirunelveli #36GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Sivaprakasam D.S.A.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,18,280 17.7 pp

votes

over Rajaselvam A.R. (AIADM)

The contest

16 candidate rows

Electors10,23,826

Votes polled6,69,818

Turnout65.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.08 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors5.16 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,015females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

16 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sivaprakasam D.S.A.	DMK	2,95,001	44.00%
2	Rajaselvam A.R.	AIADM	1,76,721	26.40%
3	Kutty Alias Shunmuga Chidambaram C.A.R.	MDMK	77,648	11.60%
4	Krishnasamy K.	JP	61,567	9.20%
5	Ponniah A.R.	BJP	25,545	3.80%
6	Nagireddi O.	IND	2,497	0.40%
7	Noordeen N.S.	IND	2,036	0.30%
8	Appasu Deivendran	IND	1,461	0.20%
9	Rayappan M.	IND	1,425	0.20%
10	Muthia Devar	IND	1,062	0.20%
11	Johny Selvaraj Alias Thiruselvam	IND	692	0.10%
12	Ponraj P.	IND	647	0.10%
13	Chandramohan A.	IND	550	0.10%
14	Tamilselvi T.	IND	409	0.10%
15	Devadoss R.	IND	395	0.10%
16	Jeevarathinam S.	IND	335	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 21,827, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 647,991 · NOTA n/a · published 669,818 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996