Vellore #7GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Shanmugam.P

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

2,11,035 29.7 pp

votes

over Akber Pasha.B (INC)

The contest

23 candidate rows

Electors10,50,168

Votes polled7,11,693

Turnout67.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.21 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors5.29 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,014females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

23 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Shanmugam.P	DMK	3,91,141	55.00%
2	Akber Pasha.B	INC	1,80,106	25.30%
3	Dhandayuthapani.V	AIICT	35,455	5.00%
4	Abdul Hakim.R	JD	26,080	3.70%
5	Karnaker.C.M	BJP	19,582	2.80%
6	Venkatesan.K.K	IND	5,680	0.80%
7	Rajan.P	IND	3,908	0.50%
8	Kalaimani.K	IND	2,478	0.30%
9	Damodaram.M	IND	2,347	0.30%
10	Sathiyamoorthy.J	IND	1,686	0.20%
11	Palani.R.T	IND	1,459	0.20%
12	Palani K	IND	1,397	0.20%
13	Gururaja Rao.D.H	IND	1,372	0.20%
14	Abdul Haleem.K	IND	1,153	0.20%
15	Farooque	IND	1,079	0.20%
16	Md. Rafeeque.J	IND	1,025	0.10%
17	Arani Arumugam.A	IND	1,016	0.10%
18	Baskar.V.S	IND	696	0.10%
19	Suriyamoorthy.R.N	IND	615	0.10%
20	Dhanapal.N.M	IND	568	0.10%
21	Manohar.C	IND	434	0.10%
22	Paneer.V.N	IND	413	0.10%
23	Varathan.J	IND	337	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 31,666, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 680,027 · NOTA n/a · published 711,693 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996