Constituency
12. Triplicane
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-TRIPLICANE
DMK 70.1%won by 48.7%AIADMK 21.4%
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 48.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 37.5% to 70.1% of the vote here (+32.6%).
- 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
71,898
Margin
35,011
48.70%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1NANJIL MANOHARAN, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK50,40170.1%
- 2WAHAB, A.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK15,39021.4%
- 3BALRAJ, L.E.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5973.6%
- 4SUNDARAM, O.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,9862.8%
- 5KARUNAMURTHY, K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK9151.3%
- 6VENUGOPAL, S.Independent · IND880.1%
- 7MARAGATHAVALLI, G.Independent · IND610.1%
- 8SARAVANANIndependent · IND600.1%
- 9SELVAM, B.Independent · IND580.1%
- 10DHANAPAL, M.Independent · IND580.1%
- 11MARISAMY KURUMANS, S.S.Independent · IND560.1%
- 12JAYARAMAN, V.M.Independent · IND530.1%
- 13VAIDHYANATHAN, S.Independent · IND510.1%
- 14KABALIDOSS, S.N.Independent · IND450.1%
- 15RAJENDRAN, B.Independent · IND400.1%
- 16RAMESH, G.Independent · IND390.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +66.3%
- DMK share
- 37.5% → 70.1%
- AIADMK share
- 55.1% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —