Constituency
195. Karaikudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-KARAIKUDI
AIADMK 49.0%won by 9.9%DMK 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 9.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
97,504
Margin
9,659
9.91%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1S.P. DURAIRASUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK47,76049.0%
- 2C.T. CHIDAMBARAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,10139.1%
- 3K.R. BOOMINATHANIndependent · IND11,32411.6%
- 4M. GUNASEKARANIndependent · IND3190.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +14.2%
- AIADMK share
- 47.4% → 49.0%
- DMK share
- 51.8% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —