Constituency
10. Thousand Lights
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-THOUSAND-LIGHTS
DMK 69.7%won by 46.8%AIADMK 23.0%
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 46.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 39.2% to 69.7% of the vote here (+30.5%).
- 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
95,968
Margin
44,877
46.76%
Candidates
24 contested · winner DMK- 1STALIN, M.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK66,90569.7%
- 2ZEENATH SHERIFFDEENAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK22,02823.0%
- 3THIYAGARAJAN, K.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,4792.6%
- 4NAGAMMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0152.1%
- 5ELUMALAI, N.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,4571.5%
- 6RAVIKANNAN, R.Independent · IND2250.2%
- 7THEERTHAMALAI, A.P.Independent · IND1590.2%
- 8MUNUSAMY, M.Independent · IND940.1%
- 9DANIEL THOMAS, R.Independent · IND840.1%
- 10THEYAGARAJAN, V.Independent · IND630.1%
- 11ARUNKUMAR, G.Independent · IND590.1%
- 12KANDASAMY, P.Independent · IND500.1%
- 13KUMAR, K.Independent · IND450.0%
- 14KRISHNAMURTHY, P.Independent · IND440.0%
- 15GAJENDRAN, G.Independent · IND400.0%
- 16PARAMASIVAN, K.Independent · IND350.0%
- 17ZUMRUTH BEGUMIndependent · IND340.0%
- 18KALAIMANI, R.Independent · IND310.0%
- 19VENKATESAN, J.Independent · IND230.0%
- 20RANGANATHAN, S.Independent · IND230.0%
- 21MUNIYANDY, K.V.Independent · IND210.0%
- 22VENKATESAN, T.Independent · IND190.0%
- 23VELU, M.P.Independent · IND190.0%
- 24MARIYAPPAN, C.Independent · IND160.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +64.1%
- DMK share
- 39.2% → 69.7%
- AIADMK share
- 56.5% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —