Vellore #7GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Shanmugam N.T.

PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi

Margin

26,405 3.8 pp

votes

over Mohammed Saqhy T.A. (DMK)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors11,01,216

Votes polled6,93,560

Turnout63.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.47 L49.7% of electorate

Female electors5.54 L50.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,013females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Shanmugam N.T.	PMK	3,31,035	47.70%
2	Mohammed Saqhy T.A.	DMK	3,04,630	43.90%
3	Akber Pasha B	INC	18,885	2.70%
4	Padmanabhan M	IND	17,837	2.60%
5	Sathiyamoorthy J	SP	836	0.10%
6	Dharanivasan B.S.	IND	706	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 19,631, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 673,929 · NOTA n/a · published 693,560 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998