Chengalpattu #5GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Parasuraman.K

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

2,35,657 31.9 pp

votes

over Krishnan.S.M (INC)

The contest

19 candidate rows

Electors10,43,889

Votes polled7,38,989

Turnout70.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.24 L50.2% of electorate

Female electors5.2 L49.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 993females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

19 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Parasuraman.K	DMK	4,10,483	55.50%
2	Krishnan.S.M	INC	1,74,826	23.70%
3	Arumugam.C	MDMK	44,384	6.00%
4	Damodaran.B	AIICT	43,820	5.90%
5	Ragavan K.T	BJP	11,112	1.50%
6	Radhakrishnasha D.V	IND	2,690	0.40%
7	Chitharanjan Doss Agaram	IND	2,544	0.30%
8	Arumugam.G	MELPH	2,330	0.30%
9	Khaleel Mahmed.N	IND	2,245	0.30%
10	Sankaran.V	IND	1,795	0.20%
11	Karnan.R	IND	1,718	0.20%
12	Sundaramoorthy A	IND	1,595	0.20%
13	Subramaniam A.G	IND	1,565	0.20%
14	Vaidyanathaswamy.R	IND	1,207	0.20%
15	Palani.K	IND	1,149	0.20%
16	Paramanandam N.S	IND	1,120	0.20%
17	Suresh J	IND	860	0.10%
18	Mohan R.	IND	741	0.10%
19	Dharmalinga Mudaliar.C	IND	646	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 32,159, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 706,830 · NOTA n/a · published 738,989 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996