Constituency
51. Vandavasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VANDAVASI
DMK 60.0%won by 36.2%AIADMK 23.7%
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 36.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.2% to 60.0% of the vote here (+34.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.7% of the vote between them, up from 78.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,09,686
Margin
39,746
36.24%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1ANANDAN, BALADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK65,77560.0%
- 2GUNASEELAN, V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK26,02923.7%
- 3DEVARAJ, A.V.Independent · IND13,49612.3%
- 4RAJAGOPAL, V.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,2142.0%
- 5MURUGESAN, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,3621.2%
- 6KANNIAPPAN, S.Independent · IND3570.3%
- 7PASUPATHI, C.Independent · IND2750.3%
- 8MURALI, P.Independent · IND1780.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +64.3%
- DMK share
- 25.2% → 60.0%
- AIADMK share
- 53.3% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —