Constituency
68. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
INC 51.2%won by 20.6%DMK 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 20.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.4% to 51.2% of the vote here (+28.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.8% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
95,244
Margin
19,653
20.63%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1ALAGIRI S.Indian National Congress · INC48,76751.2%
- 2PANNEERSELVAM M.R.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK29,11430.6%
- 3DEVADASU K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK15,91316.7%
- 4SANJEEVI K.Independent · IND4430.5%
- 5DEIVANAYAGAM K.Independent · IND2770.3%
- 6THANGARAJ R.TMM · TMM2460.3%
- 7DHARMAN K.Independent · IND2340.2%
- 8AZEEZKHAN M.P.Independent · IND1480.2%
- 9SUBRAMANIAN THANGAIndependent · IND1020.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–DMK swing
- +40.3%
- INC share
- 22.4% → 51.2%
- DMK share
- 42.1% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —