GEN · Tamil Nadu
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Dhanapalan, K.R.G. (DMK) won by 30,267 votes (26.3%).
- Electors
- 1,80,579
- Votes polled
- 1,18,229
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 65.5%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1996 state median: 26.3% (median 25.4%). Back to Tamil Nadu 1996 · All years
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanapalan, K.R.G.Winner | DMK | 67,566 | 58.8% |
| 2 | Natarajan, A.T. | INC | 37,299 | 32.5% |
| 3 | Jeyaraman, S.R. | AIIC(T) | 4,437 | 3.9% |
| 4 | Venugopalan, B. | BJP | 2,182 | 1.9% |
| 5 | Ravikrishnan, T. | MDMK | 1,259 | 1.1% |
| 6 | Kasilingam, R. | IND | 413 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Sudhakaran, R. | IND | 386 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Samarasam, S.A. | IND | 179 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Saleem, A.S. | IND | 124 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Arumugam, K.M. | IND | 112 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Goverthanan, K. | IND | 111 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Kennedy, N. | IND | 83 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Perumal, P. | IND | 82 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Sathasivam, A. | IND | 75 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Veerasamy, N. | IND | 73 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Subramani, V. | IND | 66 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Ramamoorthy, B. | IND | 66 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Soundappan, S. | IND | 61 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Ganesan, V. | IND | 59 | 0.1% |
| 20 | Senbagavalli, S. | IND | 53 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Ganapathy, K. | IND | 50 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Murali, C.V. | IND | 48 | 0.0% |
| 23 | Raja, S.M. | IND | 36 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Madhu, N. | IND | 28 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Vaiyapuri, S. | IND | 27 | 0.0% |
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