Pondicherry #1GEN

PUDUCHERRY · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

M.O.H. Farook

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

284 0.1 pp

votes

over S. Arumugham (DMK)

The contest

21 candidate rows

Electors6,33,635

Votes polled4,77,437

Turnout75.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.21 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors3.13 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

21 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	M.O.H. Farook	INC	1,83,986	38.50%
2	S. Arumugham	DMK	1,83,702	38.50%
3	S. Thiyagarajan	BJP	20,351	4.30%
4	Bavany Madura Cavy	PMK	19,792	4.10%
5	R. Balasubramanian	MDMK	13,397	2.80%
6	K. Manivannan	IND	8,801	1.80%
7	M.P. Mathimaharaja	IND	7,425	1.60%
8	S.K.C. Guedjendirane	BSP	4,005	0.80%
9	D. Deenadayalan	ICS	3,819	0.80%
10	G. Thiruvengadam	IND	1,922	0.40%
11	C.R. Tirougnana Sambandam	IND	1,866	0.40%
12	L. Vengataraman	JP	1,823	0.40%
13	Eswara Rao Geddam	IND	1,795	0.40%
14	S. Dayalane	IND	1,513	0.30%
15	T.Sivasubramanian @ Ravi	IND	1,394	0.30%
16	T. Saravanan	IND	1,392	0.30%
17	G. Elumalai	IND	806	0.20%
18	V. Nadarajan	IND	794	0.20%
19	S. Kamaraj	IND	791	0.20%
20	K. Padmarajan	IND	497	0.10%
21	P. Vijayakumar	IND	451	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 17,115, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 460,322 · NOTA n/a · published 477,437 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996