Constituency
15. Gummidipoondi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-GUMMIDIPOONDI
DMK 49.7%won by 17.3%AIADMK 32.3%
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 17.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.2% to 49.7% of the vote here (+24.4%).
- 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
1,24,675
Margin
21,625
17.35%
Candidates
12 contested · winner DMK- 1VENU, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK61,94649.7%
- 2MUNIRATHINAM, R.S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK40,32132.3%
- 3JAYAVELU DURAIPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK17,64814.2%
- 4NATARAJAN, M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,4542.0%
- 5BHASKARAN, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP7880.6%
- 6GUNASEKARAN, D.Janahitha Paksha · JP4010.3%
- 7SOORIYABABU, T.G.Independent · IND3150.3%
- 8PARVATHI, C.Independent · IND2690.2%
- 9RAVIRAMACHANDRAN, P.R.Independent · IND2620.2%
- 10VELU, M.Independent · IND1180.1%
- 11RAVICHANDRAN, C.R.J.Independent · IND840.1%
- 12MOHAMMED YOUSUFF, A.Independent · IND690.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +46.9%
- DMK share
- 25.2% → 49.7%
- AIADMK share
- 54.8% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —