Arakkonam #6SC

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Gopal C

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

49,488 6.9 pp

votes

over Velu A.M. (TMCM)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,72,687

Votes polled7,21,536

Turnout67.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.32 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors5.4 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,016females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Gopal C	AIADM	3,59,431	49.80%
2	Velu A.M.	TMCM	3,09,943	43.00%
3	Dhamotharan R	INC	24,519	3.40%
4	Kandappan A	IND	1,120	0.20%
5	Natarajan S.M.N.	SSP	1,078	0.10%
6	Maniezhilan Pulavar	SP	987	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 24,458, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 697,078 · NOTA n/a · published 721,536 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998