Constituency
34. Ranipet
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-RANIPET
DMK 50.8%won by 24.3%AIADMK 26.5%
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 24.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 26.4% to 50.8% of the vote here (+24.4%).
- 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
1,40,434
Margin
34,127
24.30%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1GANDHI, R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK71,34650.8%
- 2MASILAMANI, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,21926.5%
- 3ELAVAZAGAN, K.L.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK21,98715.7%
- 4HASSAIN, J.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK8,2935.9%
- 5SATHYASEELAN, K.G.Independent · IND1940.1%
- 6RAMAN, M.Independent · IND1750.1%
- 7IQBAL AHMED, K.Independent · IND1680.1%
- 8KUMAR, K.Independent · IND1490.1%
- 9DEVENDIRAN, P.Independent · IND1190.1%
- 10MANI CHAKKARVARTHY, K.L.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 11MURUGESAN, M.Independent · IND1010.1%
- 12NAGARAJAN, E.Independent · IND920.1%
- 13PANCHUNATHAN, V.Independent · IND850.1%
- 14MUTHU RAFFEEQUE AHMEDIndependent · IND830.1%
- 15ABDUL SYED KADAR, H.Independent · IND730.1%
- 16VISVANATHAN, R.Independent · IND710.1%
- 17SUKUMAR, K.Independent · IND670.0%
- 18THIYAGARAJAN, P.V.Independent · IND350.0%
- 19ARUMUGAM, V.P.Independent · IND310.0%
- 20SARAVANAN, K.Independent · IND310.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +51.2%
- DMK share
- 26.4% → 50.8%
- AIADMK share
- 53.3% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —