Constituency
7. Egmore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-EGMORE
DMK 72.6%won by 52.9%INC 19.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 52.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.3% between them, down from 98.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
70,359
Margin
37,185
52.85%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1ELLAM VAZHUTHI,I.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK51,06172.6%
- 2LAKSHMI,N.Indian National Congress · INC13,87619.7%
- 3KANNIAPPAN,M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,4723.5%
- 4KUMAR,P.M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6462.3%
- 5JANAKI KANNIAPPANAIICT · AIICT6320.9%
- 6AMUDAN ANTHONY, T.Independent · IND3300.5%
- 7SUNDARA PANDIAN, E.Independent · IND2590.4%
- 8MALAR ALIAS KRISNAN, D.Independent · IND830.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–INC swing
- +50.2%
- DMK share
- 50.5% → 72.6%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 19.7%
- Turnout
- — → —