70070 – are the total votes polled by TVK’s P. Venkataraman who was declared elected from the Mylapore constituency this Moinday evening ( May 4).
He was awarded the certificate by the officer at the CEG hall in Anna Universoty campus where counting of ballot was held.
41098 votes were polled by the DMK’s Dha Velu, the sititng MLA.
32328 votes were polled by the BJP’s Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan.
Venkataramanan established a lead from the first round and this kept climbing over the day, then lead huge even bfeore lunch.
20 rounds of counting took place.
A treasurer of the TVK party, he will be busy at party leader VIjay’s Panaiyur base now. He resides in Pallavaram and was hardly seen at TVK’s local offices in Mylapore.
