Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Arakkonam #6SC
Won
Jeevarathinam, R.
INC Indian National CongressMargin
62,393 8.8 pp
votes
over Murthy, K. (DMK)
The contest
Electors9,75,104
Votes polled7,12,528
Turnout73.1%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.87 L49.9% of electorate
Female electors4.88 L50.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,003females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeevarathinam, R. | INC | 2,99,587 | 42.00% | |
| 2 | Murthy, K. | DMK | 2,37,194 | 33.30% | |
| 3 | Subramaniam, S. | PMK | 1,47,902 | 20.80% | |
| 4 | Ravi (A) Ramachandran, N. | IND | 2,234 | 0.30% | |
| 5 | Alphons, K. | TMM | 1,994 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Kandappan, A. | IND | 1,962 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Visvanathan, R. | IND | 1,905 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Ravi Kumar, K. | IND | 1,789 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Denny. Y. | IND | 1,596 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Venkatasaperumal, M. V. P. | IND | 1,320 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Maniezhilan Pulavar | IND | 918 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Narayanan Nayar, K. N. | IND | 622 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Muruganandam, S. | IND | 535 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Annamalai, G. | IND | 494 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Vedanandam, Z. | IND | 463 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,013, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 700,515 · NOTA n/a · published 712,528 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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