Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Vellore #7GEN
Won
Abdul Samad, A. K. A.
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,60,850 24.0 pp
votes
over Abdul Latheef, M. (DMK)
The contest
Electors10,11,139
Votes polled6,69,397
Turnout66.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.08 L50.3% of electorate
Female electors5.03 L49.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
990females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abdul Samad, A. K. A. | INC | 3,56,637 | 53.30% | |
| 2 | Abdul Latheef, M. | DMK | 1,95,787 | 29.20% | |
| 3 | Mohan, R. | PMK | 85,312 | 12.70% | |
| 4 | Veradan, J. | IND | 8,184 | 1.20% | |
| 5 | Samannan, K. | IND | 2,342 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Varadarajan, A, | JPJ | 1,585 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Ganesan, J. P. | IND | 1,342 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Parasuraman, S. | IND | 1,234 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Syed Ismail, S. | TMM | 1,186 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Nisar Ahmed, M. | IND | 1,077 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Multhan, A. | IND | 806 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Panneerselvan, N. | IND | 758 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Arulmozhivarman, K. E. | IND | 673 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Suryamoorthi, R. N. | IND | 470 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Manoharan, C. | IND | 456 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | David Gounder, L. | IND | 212 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,336, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 658,061 · NOTA n/a · published 669,397 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-12