Constituency
22. Chengalpattu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-CHENGALPATTU
DMK 57.5%won by 31.9%AIADMK 25.7%
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 31.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 32.8% to 57.5% of the vote here (+24.7%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,15,493
Margin
36,805
31.87%
Candidates
17 contested · winner DMK- 1TAMILMANI, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK66,44357.5%
- 2KUMARASAMY, C.V.N.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK29,63825.7%
- 3BHASKARAN, C.R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK11,96910.4%
- 4RADHAKRISHNAN, N.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,7765.0%
- 5VEERARAGHAVAN, N.J.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP8480.7%
- 6SEKAR, M.Independent · IND1320.1%
- 7RAJENDRAN, O.Independent · IND1310.1%
- 8THARANI, D.Independent · IND910.1%
- 9RADHAKRISHNAN, R.MELPHC · MELPHC750.1%
- 10ARUNACHALAM, D.Independent · IND700.1%
- 11LOGANATHAN, M.P.Independent · IND700.1%
- 12VAIDYANATHASWAMY, R.Independent · IND500.0%
- 13VEDAGIRI, C.R.Independent · IND460.0%
- 14AYUB KHAN, R.Independent · IND430.0%
- 15MUNUSAMY, R.Independent · IND400.0%
- 16ABDUL HAMEED, M.G.Independent · IND390.0%
- 17MOHAN, S.Independent · IND320.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +47.7%
- DMK share
- 32.8% → 57.5%
- AIADMK share
- 48.6% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —