Constituency
16. Ponneri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PONNERI
DMK 61.7%won by 32.0%AIADMK 29.7%
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 32.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.2% to 61.7% of the vote here (+31.5%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam 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
1,41,856
Margin
45,391
32.00%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1SUNDARAM, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK87,54761.7%
- 2GUNASEKARAN, G.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,15629.7%
- 3KRISHNAMOORTHY, R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,3795.2%
- 4JANAKIRAMAN, S.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,9231.4%
- 5PACCIKRISAWAMY, C.Independent · IND1,4431.0%
- 6ANNAMALAI, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP8670.6%
- 7ARUMUGAM, P.U.Janahitha Paksha · JP5410.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +66.5%
- DMK share
- 30.2% → 61.7%
- AIADMK share
- 64.7% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —