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Tiruchendur #38GEN
Won
Dhanuskodi Athithan R.
TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Margin
2,03,711 34.2 pp
votes
over Justin S. (INC)
The contest
Electors9,79,656
Votes polled5,96,500
Turnout60.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.81 L49.1% of electorate
Female electors4.98 L50.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,035females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanuskodi Athithan R. | TMCM | 3,17,943 | 53.30% | |
| 2 | Justin S. | INC | 1,14,232 | 19.20% | |
| 3 | Chandra Bose,n.S. | BJP | 79,051 | 13.30% | |
| 4 | Anton Gomez | JD | 48,066 | 8.10% | |
| 5 | Sundaram R. | IND | 3,274 | 0.50% | |
| 6 | Arulappa Nadar S | IND | 2,995 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | Nagarajan V. | IND | 1,406 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Karthikeyan J. | IND | 1,113 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Kumarasamy V. | IND | 991 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Rajagopalan N. | IND | 763 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Murugendran S. | IND | 655 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Maria Joseph Alias Manuel Raj | IND | 451 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Muthuperumal P. | IND | 382 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Balasubramanian A. | IND | 308 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Senthurpandi V. | IND | 306 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Sivaramasubramaniam, R. | IND | 187 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 24,377, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 572,123 · NOTA n/a · published 596,500 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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