Constituency
17. Thiruvottiyur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-THIRUVOTTIYUR
DMK 64.2%won by 41.5%AIADMK 22.7%
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 41.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 38.5% to 64.2% of the vote here (+25.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
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
1,80,624
Margin
75,022
41.53%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1VIJAYAN, T.C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,15,93964.2%
- 2BALRAJ, B.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK40,91722.7%
- 3SOUNDARARAJAN, A.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,3299.0%
- 4VELMURUGAN, T.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK4,5592.5%
- 5NALLASIVAM, S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5110.8%
- 6MAHENDRAMANI, D.ICS · ICS3780.2%
- 7SHANMUGA SUNDARAM, R.Independent · IND1790.1%
- 8PARIYASAMY, S.Shiv Sena · SHS1500.1%
- 9ASLAMBASHA, K.Independent · IND1300.1%
- 10VEERAN, N.Independent · IND1280.1%
- 11SIVARAJ, A.Independent · IND940.1%
- 12VADAMALAI, D.Independent · IND880.0%
- 13GUNASEELAN, B.Independent · IND860.0%
- 14RAJENDRAKUMAR, L.Independent · IND720.0%
- 15VENKATESWARAN, V.MMS · MMS640.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +59.5%
- DMK share
- 38.5% → 64.2%
- AIADMK share
- 56.5% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —