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Constituency

44. Tiruvannamalai

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996

TN-TIRUVANNAMALAI

DMK 66.5%won by 42.1%INC 24.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 42.1%.

  • DMK vote shareDMK went from 33.5% to 66.5% of the vote here (+33.0%).
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,25,822
Margin
52,978
42.11%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMKINC swing
+67.5%
DMK share
33.5% 66.5%
INC share
58.9% 24.4%
Turnout