Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Tenkasi #37SC
Won
M.Arunachalam
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,72,707 27.0 pp
votes
over R.Krishan (CPIM)
The contest
Electors9,33,214
Votes polled6,38,792
Turnout68.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.58 L49.1% of electorate
Female electors4.75 L50.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,038females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,905, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 628,887 · NOTA n/a · published 638,792 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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