Constituency
44. Tiruvannamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-TIRUVANNAMALAI
DMK 66.5%won by 42.1%INC 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,25,822
Margin
52,978
42.11%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1PITCHANDI, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK83,73166.5%
- 2ARUNACHALAM, A.Indian National Congress · INC30,75324.4%
- 3SEKAR, B.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7,0405.6%
- 4ELANGO, T.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,2311.8%
- 5PANDURANGAN, R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6710.5%
- 6RANJAN, K.Independent · IND4200.3%
- 7ANNAMUTHU, R.Independent · IND3620.3%
- 8PANDURANGAN, M.Samajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1660.1%
- 9PULITHEVAN, M.Independent · IND1270.1%
- 10ISSAC NEWTONIndependent · IND1030.1%
- 11VENKATESAN, G.Independent · IND710.1%
- 12ANNAMALAI, G.Independent · IND620.0%
- 13JAYAKUMAR, M.G.Independent · IND480.0%
- 14NARAYANAN, A.Independent · IND370.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +67.5%
- DMK share
- 33.5% → 66.5%
- INC share
- 58.9% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —