R. Venkatesan : Political Career

Election history

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

2016 for Vidhan Sabha from Pallavaram

LOST against Karunanithi I

with 4% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Karunanithi I	DMK	112,891
Saraswathi C R	ADMK	90,726
Veeralakshmi C	MDMK	14,083
Gopi Ayyaswamy	BJP	11,781
Venkatesan R	PMK	9,339
None Of The Above	NOTA	5,823
Srinivasa Kumar P	NTK	4,488
John Rajarathanam J	BSP	592
Maharajan G	IND	290
Kavignan Pythium	IND	282
Chittibabu S	THP	234
Backiyaraj M	SHS	194
Rukmangathan R	IND	141
Karuppusamy P	KMDK	138
Ayodhil	IND	109
Anantharaman R K	IND	93

2016 for Vidhan Sabha from Chengalpattu

LOST against Varalakshmi M

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Varalakshmi M	DMK	112,675
Kamalakkannan R	ADMK	86,383
Arumugam K	PMK	20,899
Murugesan D	DMDK	17,438
Sanjeevinathan K	NTK	4,035
None Of The Above	NOTA	3,584
Muthamilselvan S	IJK	1,517
Ajay S	BSP	577
Venkatesan E	IND	467
Durairaj L	IND	439
Varalakshmi K	IND	406
Venkatesan R	IND	264
Sathish Kumar G	SHS	235
Rafi M	IND	228
Jothi G	IND	204
Veeramani P	IND	192
Selvaraj T	AIJMK	119
Kumaran S	IND	112

2014 for Lok Sabha from Vellore

LOST against Senguttuvan, B.

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Senguttuvan, B.	ADMK	383,719
Shanmugam, A.C.	BJP	324,326
Abdul Rahman, M.	IUML	205,896
Vijay Elanchezian, J.	INC	21,650
None Of The Above	NOTA	7,100
Gopu, C.	IND	6,056
Govindan, C.	IND	4,169
Imdad Shariff, A.	AAAP	3,742
Sivaprakasam, R.S.	IND	3,603
Jayaprakash	BSP	2,791
Kesavan, M.	IND	1,708
Thirupathy, T.	IND	1,293
Abdul Rahman, B.	IND	1,052
Gangadaran, K.	IND	991
Sugumar, K.	IND	828
Eswaran, R.	IND	790
Venkatesan, R.	IND	764
Nandha Kumar, V.	SP	745
Abdul Rahman, N.	IND	581
Lalitha, K.	IND	561
Dhandapani, M.	IND	558
Shareef Basha, H.	SAP	496
George, V.A.	BDBRAJP	491
Manimaran, M.	IND	430
Gangadharan, K.	TNMC	430

2014 for Lok Sabha from Salem

LOST against Pannerselvam.V

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Pannerselvam.V	ADMK	556,546
Umarani. S	DMK	288,936
Sudhish L K	DMDK	201,265
Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam	INC	46,477
None Of The Above	NOTA	20,601
Chinnusamy N	IND	5,374
Satheesh Kumar E	AAAP	5,198
Govindaraju K	IND	3,261
Senthil Kumar M	IND	2,903
Sakthivel S	IND	2,581
Kandasamy R	IND	2,550
Raja A	IND	2,203
Kuppayee R	IND	1,701
Shanmugam G	MMKA	1,623
Vinayagamoorthi T	BSP	1,619
Umarani S	IND	1,232
Rajakannu A	IND	1,151
Thiagarajan K	IND	777
Arumugam M	IND	731
Venkatesan R	RPI(A)	623
Panneerselvam N	IND	574
M Ahamed Shahjahan	IND	529
Abdul Wahid I	IND	526
Prakasam R	IND	484
Mass Ganesh A	TTNC	474
Nandakumar G	IND	357

2011 for Vidhan Sabha from Chengalpattu

LOST against D. Murugesan

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
D. Murugesan	DMDK	83,297
V. G. Rangasamy	PMK	83,006
M. Panneer Selvam	AIJMK	4,124
K. T. Raghavan	BJP	4,073
R. Murugan	IND	3,597
S. Muthamilselvan	IJK	3,265
L. Durairaj	BSP	1,167
K. Somasundaram	PB	1,040
R. Venkatesan	IND	902
K. Ayyanarappan	IND	641
M. Kuppan	IND	419
D. Mahadevan	IND	321
N. Gopalakrishnan	IND	283
S. Kanagaraj	IND	271
P. Chitti Babu	IND	271
C. Chandran	IND	190

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Madurai West

LOST against P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan	DMK	61,723
R. Muthusamy	INC	17,465
K. John Moses	JD	13,965
A.G. Karunakaran	JP	4,206
Era. Veerasamy	SHS	179
S.V. Muthupandian	IND	133
S. Shanmugavelu	IND	117
M. Mariammal	IND	114
S. Jayaraman	IND	111
C. Karthigaimalai	IND	86
B. Jeyaram	IND	78
R. Venkatesan	IND	77
R. Dhanamani	IND	76
V. Narayanan	IND	75
J. Purusothaman	IND	60
A. Swaminathan	IND	58
K. Thazamuthu Raja	IND	52
M. Ramadoss	IND	51
R. Thamilmaran	IND	49
S.V. Murugesan	IND	45
H. Geetha	IND	44
M. Selvam	IND	42
M. Maruthamuthu	IND	34
E. Balasubramanian	IND	25
G. Balamurugan	IND	25

1991 for Vidhan Sabha from Bargur

LOST against J. Jayalalitha

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
J. Jayalalitha	ADMK	67,680
T. Rajhendher	TMK	30,465
A.C. Chinnasamy	PMK	1,815
E.G. Sugavanam	DMK	1,311
V.T.R. Geerapa Gounder	IND	501
V. Tamilarasu	IND	477
R. Venkatesan	BJP	463
Yuvaraj G.	IND	373
S. Sundaramoorthiy	IND	191
N.M. Ganesan	IND	143
M.S. Sreedharan	IND	92
A. Perumal	IND	83
V. Subramaniam	IND	66
K. Subramaniam	IND	64
N. Pichandi	IND	63
N. Sethuraman	IND	54

1989 for Lok Sabha from Cuddalore

WON against G. Bhaskaran

with 51% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
P. R. S. Venkatesan	INC	331,617
G. Bhaskaran	DMK	214,782
V. R. Dhandapani	PMK	99,814
S. Perumal	TMM	3,394
K. Dharuman	IND	2,985
T. Abdulwahab	IND	1,611
S.Kesavan	IND	1,479

1989 for Vidhan Sabha from Palacodu

LOST against Madhapan K.

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Madhapan K.	ADK(JL)	37,168
Chandrasekar T.	DMK	32,668
Theertharaman P.	INC	16,440
Nagarajan D.M.	ADK(JR)	7,430
Chinnasamy A.	IND	671
Venkatesan R.	IND	458
Latchumanan P.R.	BJP	430
Akkumaran M.	IND	294
Dhanapal K.M.	IND	195
Devakumar Varma P.V. Perisamy	IND	103