Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Tirunelveli #36GEN
Won
Dhanuskodi Athithan, R.
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,67,075 26.5 pp
votes
over Amirtha Ganesan, R. (AIADM)
The contest
Electors10,86,290
Votes polled6,31,284
Turnout58.1%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.29 L48.7% of electorate
Female electors5.57 L51.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,053females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanuskodi Athithan, R. | INC | 3,70,127 | 58.60% | |
| 2 | Amirtha Ganesan, R. | AIADM | 2,03,052 | 32.20% | |
| 3 | Appavu. M | JDU | 39,333 | 6.20% | |
| 4 | Sridhar Babu. C | IND | 5,774 | 0.90% | |
| 5 | Kasipandian. T | BSP | 3,606 | 0.60% | |
| 6 | Thirumalai Nambi. K | IND | 1,904 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Shanmuganathan, K.G. | IND | 1,650 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Muthukumar, A. | IND | 1,518 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Suresh. S | JP | 1,505 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Chinnadurai. G | IND | 1,386 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Sulaiman Sait Alim. A | IND | 1,355 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Kalyana Suntharam. A | IND | 968 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Ari Puthiran, A. | IND | 820 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Rajagopalan, N. | IND | 784 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -2,498, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 633,782 · NOTA n/a · published 631,284 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
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- 2026-09-13