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Pondicherry #1GEN
Won
M O H Farook
INC Indian National CongressMargin
24,188 5.4 pp
votes
over M Ramadass (PMK)
The contest
Electors7,01,990
Votes polled4,44,174
Turnout63.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.56 L50.8% of electorate
Female electors3.46 L49.2% of electorate
Sex ratio
970females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M O H Farook | INC | 1,65,108 | 37.20% | |
| 2 | M Ramadass | PMK | 1,40,920 | 31.70% | |
| 3 | P Kannan | TMCM | 1,11,737 | 25.20% | |
| 4 | Kalivaradhan | IND | 9,452 | 2.10% | |
| 5 | A Ramalingam | IND | 5,562 | 1.30% | |
| 6 | Adv. T Ashok Kumar | IND | 5,179 | 1.20% | |
| 7 | Dr. K Padmarajan | IND | 2,700 | 0.60% | |
| 8 | S Paramasivam | IND | 2,155 | 0.50% | |
| 9 | Surendra Kumar Gupta | IND | 1,349 | 0.30% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 444,162 · NOTA n/a · published 444,174 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999
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- 2026-09-12