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Nagercoil #39GEN
Won
Dennis N.
TMCM Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Margin
27,697 4.7 pp
votes
over Radhakrishnan P. (BJP)
The contest
Electors9,74,018
Votes polled5,83,299
Turnout59.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.95 L50.8% of electorate
Female electors4.79 L49.2% of electorate
Sex ratio
968females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dennis N. | TMCM | 1,97,582 | 33.90% | |
| 2 | Radhakrishnan P. | BJP | 1,69,885 | 29.10% | |
| 3 | Muhammad Ismail | JD | 1,30,753 | 22.40% | |
| 4 | Kumari Ananthan | INC | 51,726 | 8.90% | |
| 5 | Lawrance A. | AIICT | 5,248 | 0.90% | |
| 6 | Nallasivan Pillai N. | IND | 1,246 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Nagarajan V. | IND | 767 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Subramonyan V. | IND | 623 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Chidambaram T. | IND | 604 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Dharmaraj K. | IND | 516 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Joseph, P | IND | 451 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Suresh Kumar Alias Suresh Swamiar Kani | IND | 444 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Subbian A. | IND | 423 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Ponnuswamy E. | IND | 361 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Nagoor Meeran Mohammed U. | IND | 347 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Murugan V.N. | IND | 340 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Aruldas, A.J. | IND | 252 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | Stephen S.H. | IND | 83 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 21,648, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 561,651 · NOTA n/a · published 583,299 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12