Constituency
37. Gudiyattam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-GUDIYATTAM
DMK 48.6%won by 29.0%INC 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 29.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 48.6% of the vote here (+48.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
1,00,453
Margin
29,136
29.00%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1DHANAPAL, V.G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK48,83748.6%
- 2RAMGOPAL, S.Indian National Congress · INC19,70119.6%
- 3VENUGOPAL, R.Independent · IND13,71313.7%
- 4PANNEER, N.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK8,0378.0%
- 5VISWANATHAN, G.MGRM · MGRM7,0997.1%
- 6ESWARAN, D.Independent · IND1,3631.4%
- 7KRISHNAN, N.Independent · IND3570.4%
- 8GOUSE BASHA, S.Independent · IND3540.4%
- 9SUNDARAM, C.Independent · IND2140.2%
- 10GANGADHARAN, L.Independent · IND2020.2%
- 11MURALIRAJAN, A.Independent · IND1540.2%
- 12PALANI, R.Independent · IND1230.1%
- 13DHANAPAL, N.M.Independent · IND1140.1%
- 14DEVARAJI, A.Independent · IND830.1%
- 15MAQBOOLJAN, N.Independent · IND520.1%
- 16PALANI, M.V.Independent · IND500.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +93.4%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —