Tiruchendur #38GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Dhanuskodi Athithan R.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

2,12,071 36.8 pp

votes

over Karthikeyan A. (DMK)

The contest

13 candidate rows

Electors9,51,922

Votes polled5,75,556

Turnout60.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.64 L48.7% of electorate

Female electors4.88 L51.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,052females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

13 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dhanuskodi Athithan R.	INC	3,85,656	67.00%
2	Karthikeyan A.	DMK	1,73,585	30.20%
3	Elavarasan I	TMM	1,602	0.30%
4	Leshmana Perumal Alias Thapendaran P.	IND	1,535	0.30%
5	Papanasam C.	PMK	1,500	0.30%
6	Saravana Perumal S.	IND	1,120	0.20%
7	Kalayana Sundaram A.	IND	999	0.20%
8	Raja Gopalan N.	IND	898	0.20%
9	Karthikeyan J.	IND	781	0.10%
10	Harirama Krishan I.	IND	483	0.10%
11	Dhanukkodi Ramalinga Pandian A.	IND	439	0.10%
12	Vallivel Nadar O.K.	IND	422	0.10%
13	Subramanian R.	IND	418	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,118, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 569,438 · NOTA n/a · published 575,556 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989