E. Ponnuswamy : Political Career

Election history

            All the elections where a candidate by the name E. Ponnuswamy contested in whether lost or won, by how many votes. His/ her vote share etc details all can be found here.
          

2009 for Lok Sabha from Chidambaram

LOST against Thirumaavalavan, Thol

with 38% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Thirumaavalavan, Thol	VCK	428,804
Ponnuswamy,E	PMK	329,721
Sasikumar, S	DMDK	66,283
Manikandan, V	IND	9,799
Marudhamuthu, V	IND	8,367
Kaviyarasan, N	IND	6,173
Rajendiran, N.R	BSP	5,718
Susila , L	IND	4,178
Selvakumar, C	RKSP	3,140
Dharmalingam, C	IND	2,678
Sakthivel,P	IND	1,950
Senthamil Selvi , K	IND	1,500
Kanagasabai, R	IND	1,398

2004 for Lok Sabha from Chidambaram

WON against Thirumaavalavan Thol

with 46% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Ponnuswamy E.	PMK	343,424
Thirumaavalavan Thol	JD(U)	255,773
Periasamy. D	BJP	113,974
Ramalingam. D	IND	6,051
Jawaharlal Nehru. P	JP	5,526
Kumar. K	BSP	5,092
Ponnusamy. V E	IND	3,159
Periyasamy. S A	IND	2,828
Ramamoorthy.	IND	2,003
Kanagasabai. R	IND	1,758
Archunan. T	IND	1,486
Purushothman. K	IND	1,274
Thiravidamani. S	IND	1,062

1999 for Lok Sabha from Chidambaram

WON against Thirumavalavan R.

with 48% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Ponnuswamy E.	PMK	345,331
Thirumavalavan R.	TMC(M)	225,768
Sumathi Udayakumar Thirumathi T.	INC	150,794
Muruganantham D.	IND	1,606
Kanagasabai R.	IND	422
Kamaraj V.	IND	384

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Kollachal

LOST against Bernard Era

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Bernard Era	DMK	41,217
S.P. Kutty	BJP	33,791
Sambath Chandra R.	MDMK	11,528
Pauliah A.	INC	8,401
Chandra Sekhar	IND	186
Jaipal J.T.	AIIC(T)	168
Sreekumaran Thampy A.	IND	137
Chandrasekaran N.	IND	130
Tharchis Xavier S.	IND	130
Ponnuswamy E.	IND	83
Murugan R.	IND	71
Thomas S.	IND	66
Poulin P.	IND	62
Periya Nadar S.	IND	60
Krishnaraj M.	IND	58
Rajasingh C.	IND	50
Monikandan K.	IND	43

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Thiruvattar

LOST against V. Alban

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
V. Alban	DMK	37,523
J. Hema Chandran	CPM	25,169
R. Manmadan	BJP	21,192
A. Wilson	AIIC(T)	4,720
K. Pal Nadar	IND	735
C. Selvadhas	IND	378
P. Kasi	IND	226
Leela Sundaram D.	IND	225
S.N. Pushkaran	IND	221
M. Christu Dhas	IND	191
T. Vargsee	IND	140
N. Rasheed	IND	118
E. Ponnuswamy	IND	96
R. Manoharan	IND	71

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Vilavancode

LOST against D. Mony

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
D. Mony	CPM	42,867
V. Thankaraj	DMK	21,585
N. Sreenivasan	BJP	16,141
M. Sundaradas	INC	13,057
K.S. Janakaraj	AIIC(T)	1,713
P. Babu	IND	1,156
C. Chandran	IND	681
P. Parameswaran	IND	375
C. Chellan	IND	285
J. Pushparaj	IND	229
C. Johnson	IND	224
H. David	IND	175
M. Peter	IND	116
C.P. Radhakrishnan	IND	98
P. Rasilayyan	IND	89
E. Ponnuswamy	IND	63
S. Joseph Emmanuvel	IND	37

1996 for Lok Sabha from Nagercoil

LOST against Dennis N.

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Dennis N.	TMC(M)	197,582
Radhakrishnan P.	BJP	169,885
Muhammad Ismail	JD	130,753
Kumari Ananthan	INC	51,726
Lawrance A.	AIIC(T)	5,248
Nallasivan Pillai N.	IND	1,246
Nagarajan V.	IND	767
Subramonyan V.	IND	623
Chidambaram T.	IND	604
Dharmaraj K.	IND	516
Joseph P	IND	451
Suresh Kumar Alias Suresh Swamiar Kani	IND	444
Subbian A.	IND	423
Ponnuswamy E.	IND	361
Nagoor Meeran Mohammed U.	IND	347
Murugan V.N.	IND	340
Aruldas A.J.	IND	252
Stephen S.H.	IND	83

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Nagercoil

LOST against Moses M.

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Moses M.	TMC(M)	51,086
Velpandian S.	BJP	22,608
Seluvai Antony V.	INC	15,368
Retnaraj S.	MDMK	11,046
Rathakrishnan R.	AIIC(T)	4,153
Suresh S.	PMK	570
Suyambulingam V.	IND	130
Subbian A.	IND	91
Jereen Christopher E.G.	IND	89
Selvakumar R.	IND	68
Lohanathan A.	IND	67
Padmanabha Pillai M.	IND	45
Alangaram M.	IND	43
Ponnuswamy E.	IND	39
Stewart Gnanadhas	IND	33
Selvamony S.	IND	32
Chandrasekhar M.	IND	31
Nagoor Meeran Mohamed U.	IND	29
Thurai C.	IND	29
Jackson Sundar Singh P.	IND	3