Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Tenkasi #37SC
Won
Arunachalam, M.
TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Margin
95,926 14.1 pp
votes
over Selvaraj V. (INC)
The contest
Electors9,73,084
Votes polled6,80,617
Turnout69.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.78 L49.2% of electorate
Female electors4.95 L50.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,034females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arunachalam, M. | TMCM | 2,90,663 | 42.70% | |
| 2 | Selvaraj V. | INC | 1,94,737 | 28.60% | |
| 3 | Jeyaraj P. | CPIM | 82,615 | 12.10% | |
| 4 | Arumugam S. | BJP | 52,120 | 7.70% | |
| 5 | Amirtharaj.T. | PMK | 16,328 | 2.40% | |
| 6 | Karuppasamy S. | IND | 2,383 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Devadoss R. | IND | 2,058 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Shumugiah M. | IND | 1,994 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Subramanian, M. | IND | 1,212 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Maruthan K. | IND | 1,035 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Vellapandi S. | IND | 1,000 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 34,472, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 646,145 · NOTA n/a · published 680,617 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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