Constituency
45. Kalasapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KALASAPAKKAM
DMK 59.1%won by 28.3%INC 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 28.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 28.3% to 59.1% of the vote here (+30.8%).
- 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
1,22,092
Margin
34,530
28.28%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1THIRUVENGADAM, P.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK72,17759.1%
- 2SUNDARASAMI, M.Indian National Congress · INC37,64730.8%
- 3BABU KANDER, S.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK9,9018.1%
- 4ARIVALAGAN, S.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,1941.0%
- 5PALANI, P.Independent · IND3660.3%
- 6SAMUVEL DESIGAR, M.N.G.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP2420.2%
- 7RANGAN, N.Independent · IND2140.2%
- 8AYODHI, B.Samajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2010.2%
- 9ASOKAN, A.Independent · IND1500.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +57.3%
- DMK share
- 28.3% → 59.1%
- INC share
- 57.4% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- — → —