Constituency
5. Perambur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PERAMBUR
DMK 67.3%won by 43.3%AIADMK 24.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 43.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.8% to 67.3% of the vote here (+26.5%).
- 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
1,34,760
Margin
58,351
43.30%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1CHENGAISIVAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK90,68367.3%
- 2NEELAKANDAN,V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK32,33224.0%
- 3SARALA,R.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,0086.7%
- 4NAGESWARA RAO,G.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9101.4%
- 5RAMARAO,K.Independent · IND3550.3%
- 6SUNDARAMURTHY,V.RPIS · RPIS2080.2%
- 7SARAVANAN,L.Independent · IND1380.1%
- 8ANANDAJOTHI,R.Independent · IND1260.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +56.6%
- DMK share
- 40.8% → 67.3%
- AIADMK share
- 54.1% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —