Constituency
46. Polur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-POLUR
DMK 55.5%won by 22.7%AIADMK 32.8%
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 22.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 22.3% to 55.5% of the vote here (+33.1%).
- 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
1,06,525
Margin
24,153
22.67%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1A. RAJENDRANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK59,07055.5%
- 2AGRI. S. KRISHNAMOORTHYAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,91732.8%
- 3K.N. MURALIDHARANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK10,4739.8%
- 4A. KARTHIKEYANMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,3361.3%
- 5P.K. GANGADHARANIndependent · IND3870.4%
- 6T.C. MANILINGAMSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1500.1%
- 7M. JAYABALANIndependent · IND1110.1%
- 8R. ARUMUGAMIndependent · IND810.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +62.5%
- DMK share
- 22.3% → 55.5%
- AIADMK share
- 62.1% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —