GEN · Tamil Nadu
Palani
Kaarvendhan .s.k (TMC(M)) won by 1,92,633 votes (27.3%).
- Electors
- 10,67,963
- Votes polled
- 7,35,759
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 68.9%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1996 national median: 27.3% (median 9.4%). Back to Tamil Nadu · 1996 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Safe (20%+)Flipped vs 1999
- Margin · 2004
- 33.3%(+29.0%)
- Turnout
- 63.7%(+4.8%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 95.8%
Winning margin over time · Palani
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaarvendhan .s.kWinner | TMC(M) | 4,05,782 | 57.4% |
| 2 | Kumarasamy .p | ADMK | 2,13,149 | 30.2% |
| 3 | Ponniyin Selvan .v | MDMK | 65,489 | 9.3% |
| 4 | Thirumalaisamy .k | BJP | 8,873 | 1.3% |
| 5 | Francis Xavier .a | IND | 2,829 | 0.4% |
| 6 | Muthuraj .r | IND | 1,592 | 0.2% |
| 7 | Balasubramaniam .k | IND | 1,280 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Mohamad Hussain .a | IND | 1,136 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Kumar .c | IND | 1,026 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Karuppuchamy .p | IND | 732 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Kailasam .k | IND | 720 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Murugan .p | IND | 618 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Chinnasamy .l | IND | 535 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Balasubramani .p | IND | 480 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Muniappan .m | IND | 442 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Thangavel .m | IND | 411 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Thangaraj .v | IND | 364 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Abdul Khalaam Azad .k | IND | 339 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Chandrasekaran .s | IND | 314 | 0.0% |
| 20 | Jothinandhakumar .r.n | IND | 267 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Ramaraja .g | IND | 175 | 0.0% |
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