Constituency
2. Harbour
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-HARBOUR
DMK 70.6%won by 54.4%INC 16.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 54.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% between them, down from 95.9% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
55,638
Margin
30,256
54.38%
Candidates
33 contested · winner DMK- 1ANBAZHAGAN,KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,26370.6%
- 2EARNEST PAULIndian National Congress · INC9,00716.2%
- 3BASHEER AHAMED,HMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,5768.2%
- 4DHANANJAYAN,KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,3524.2%
- 5ARUMUGAM,KPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1680.3%
- 6ALAGARSAMY,MIndependent · IND440.1%
- 7SEKAR,A.T.Independent · IND320.1%
- 8SIVASHANMUGAM,MIndependent · IND200.0%
- 9NAGARAJAN,RIndependent · IND180.0%
- 10ELANGOVAN,S.E.Independent · IND180.0%
- 11MOHAN,NIndependent · IND160.0%
- 12CHOKKALINGAM, P.K.Independent · IND150.0%
- 13SAMBANDAN,NIndependent · IND120.0%
- 14ABDUL RAHMAN,K.Independent · IND100.0%
- 15CHANDRASEKARAN,G.Independent · IND100.0%
- 16ASHOK,V.Independent · IND100.0%
- 17SEENI MOHAMED,K.Independent · IND100.0%
- 18AMIR HAMSA, K.K.M.Independent · IND60.0%
- 19RADHAKRISHNAN,G.Independent · IND60.0%
- 20MANI,G.Independent · IND50.0%
- 21SAIK MOHAMED,A.Independent · IND50.0%
- 22NARAYANAN,S.Independent · IND50.0%
- 23ANNAMALAI,KIndependent · IND40.0%
- 24MUHAMED ILAHI,R.Independent · IND30.0%
- 25JALALUDEEN,J.Independent · IND30.0%
- 26RAVI,A.Independent · IND30.0%
- 27AMUDHA,D.Independent · IND30.0%
- 28RAVI SHANKER,M.Independent · IND30.0%
- 29ALEXANDER,E.Independent · IND30.0%
- 30ABDUL KASIM,K.Independent · IND20.0%
- 31AYUBKHAN,E.Independent · IND20.0%
- 32RAJAMANNAR, P.V.Independent · IND20.0%
- 33MATHI ARASU,S.Independent · IND20.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–INC swing
- +53.0%
- DMK share
- 48.7% → 70.6%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 16.2%
- Turnout
- — → —