EElectionLens
Constituency

26. Kancheepuram

Community mirror

Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996

TN-KANCHEEPURAM

DMK 55.9%won by 23.5%AIADMK 32.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 23.5%.

  • DMK vote shareDMK went from 33.0% to 55.9% of the vote here (+22.9%).
  • 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,39,031
Margin
32,629
23.47%

Candidates

22 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1P. MURUGESANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK77,72355.9%
  2. 2S.S. THIRUNAVUKARASUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK45,09432.4%
  3. 3S. ELUMALAIPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7,6435.5%
  4. 4Y.M. NARAYANASAMYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,6834.1%
  5. 5M. GOVINDARAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0170.7%
  6. 6M.A. DOMENICJanahitha Paksha · JP3560.3%
  7. 7MANJULAIndependent · IND1970.1%
  8. 8S. SUBBAIAHIndependent · IND1740.1%
  9. 9A. VENKATAPATHYIndependent · IND1700.1%
  10. 10K.R. THULASIRAMANIndependent · IND1160.1%
  11. 11CHITHARANJAN DOSS AGARAMIndependent · IND1140.1%
  12. 12G. MURUGESANIndependent · IND1130.1%
  13. 13S. MANI SAHIndependent · IND880.1%
  14. 14K. SELVARAJIndependent · IND800.1%
  15. 15K.V. PARANTHAMANIndependent · IND740.1%
  16. 16BALASUBRAMANIAN @ APPUIndependent · IND720.1%
  17. 17R. VENGOBASAHIndependent · IND650.0%
  18. 18S. RANJITHAMIndependent · IND640.0%
  19. 19V. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND610.0%
  20. 20A. RATANCHANDIndependent · IND450.0%
  21. 21S. LOGANATHANIndependent · IND450.0%
  22. 22G. ANBAZHAGANIndependent · IND370.0%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMK–AIADMK swing
+46.5%
DMK share
33.0% → 55.9%
AIADMK share
56.0% → 32.4%
Turnout
— → —
25. Uthiramerur27. Sriperumbudur
Back to the TN Assembly 1996 explorer