Constituency
24. Acharapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-ACHARAPAKKAM
DMK 56.1%won by 26.1%AIADMK 30.0%
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 26.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 29.8% to 56.1% of the vote here (+26.4%).
- 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
97,170
Margin
25,371
26.11%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1MATHIVANAN, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK54,55856.1%
- 2BHUVARAGHAMOORTHY, A.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK29,18730.0%
- 3ADHIKESAVAN, E.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK8,0988.3%
- 4NAGARAJAN, A.V.Janata Dal · JD2,6762.8%
- 5KADIRVELU, M.Independent · IND6560.7%
- 6VARATHARAJAN, P.K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3500.4%
- 7SELLADURAI, P.G.Independent · IND3050.3%
- 8MARI @ MARINATH, K.Independent · IND2590.3%
- 9KANNAN, M.Independent · IND2390.2%
- 10KUMAR, V.Independent · IND2380.2%
- 11ARUMUGAM, ER.Independent · IND1850.2%
- 12RAJI, A.APMK · APMK1370.1%
- 13DORAIKANNU, A.Independent · IND1000.1%
- 14NARAYANAN, M.Independent · IND960.1%
- 15VINAYAGAM, S.Independent · IND860.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +52.6%
- DMK share
- 29.8% → 56.1%
- AIADMK share
- 56.3% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —