Constituency
6. Purasawalkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PURASAWALKAM
TMCM 70.6%won by 52.2%INC 18.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 52.2%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 70.6% of the vote here (+70.6%).
- Safe seatTMCM 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
1,39,022
Margin
72,614
52.23%
Candidates
22 contested · winner TMCM- 1RANGANATHAN,B.TMCM · TMCM98,15770.6%
- 2GNANAM,J. KATHIPARAIndian National Congress · INC25,54318.4%
- 3ETHIRAJAN,G.Janata Dal · JD9,1286.6%
- 4DHAKSHINA MURTHY,K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6231.9%
- 5NADESAN,M.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,6041.2%
- 6GNANA SEKAR,A.Independent · IND6570.5%
- 7MOHAMED KAYASUDEEN,A.Independent · IND1740.1%
- 8KALAIVAN,E.R.Independent · IND1630.1%
- 9RAJAVELAN,P.M.Independent · IND1580.1%
- 10ARUMUGAM,E.M.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 11ANNAMALAI YADAV,T.Independent · IND1050.1%
- 12JAWAHAR,S.Independent · IND780.1%
- 13SADHASIVAM,K.Independent · IND740.1%
- 14UMA SANKAR,K.Independent · IND700.1%
- 15SELVAM YADHAV,R.Independent · IND640.0%
- 16MURUGESAN,A.Independent · IND610.0%
- 17ARAVINDAN,K.Independent · IND590.0%
- 18VAIRAMUDI,B.Independent · IND500.0%
- 19VENKATA RAMANI,J.Independent · IND450.0%
- 20VENKATESAN,G.Independent · IND440.0%
- 21SUKUMARAN,P.Independent · IND260.0%
- 22VENUGOPAL,R.Independent · IND240.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–INC swing
- +108.0%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 70.6%
- INC share
- 55.8% → 18.4%
- Turnout
- — → —