Constituency
47. Anaicut
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-ANAICUT
DMK 55.8%won by 29.9%AIADMK 25.9%
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 29.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 20.0% to 55.8% of the vote here (+35.8%).
- 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
1,05,716
Margin
31,616
29.91%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1GOPU, C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK58,98255.8%
- 2SURYAKALA, C.M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK27,36625.9%
- 3BALUR E. SAMPATHAIICT · AIICT15,97615.1%
- 4MURUGESAN, N.M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,1742.1%
- 5RAGHAVAN, D.V.Independent · IND7340.7%
- 6SIVAM, C.Independent · IND3760.4%
- 7PICHANDI, N.Independent · IND1080.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +67.5%
- DMK share
- 20.0% → 55.8%
- AIADMK share
- 57.6% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —