Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Tenkasi #37SC
Won
Appadurai, M.
CPI Communist Party Of IndiaMargin
1,22,176 17.2 pp
votes
over Murugesan. S (AIADM)
The contest
Electors10,84,708
Votes polled7,09,688
Turnout65.4%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.29 L48.8% of electorate
Female electors5.56 L51.2% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,050females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Appadurai, M. | CPI | 3,48,000 | 49.00% | |
| 2 | Murugesan. S | AIADM | 2,25,824 | 31.80% | |
| 3 | Krishnasamy. Dr., K | JDU | 1,01,122 | 14.20% | |
| 4 | Vadivel Kumar. M | IND | 14,441 | 2.00% | |
| 5 | Lakshmanan. R | IND | 5,599 | 0.80% | |
| 6 | Luke Jayakumar. P | BSP | 4,759 | 0.70% | |
| 7 | Chandran. S | JP | 2,449 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Ramakrishnan. S | IND | 2,285 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Balasundaram. S | IND | 2,153 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Chellammal. A | IND | 1,663 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Saravanan. T | IND | 1,436 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Gopalakrishnan. E | IND | 1,378 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Amirtha Raj. T | IND | 1,041 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -2,462, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 712,150 · NOTA n/a · published 709,688 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
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