Constituency
57. Kandamangalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KANDAMANGALAM
DMK 54.3%won by 25.4%AIADMK 29.0%
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 25.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 23.9% to 54.3% of the vote here (+30.4%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,18,298
Margin
29,995
25.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1S. ALAGUVELUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,25654.3%
- 2V. SUBRAMANIYANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,26129.0%
- 3S. POONGAVANAMPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK10,6949.0%
- 4P. VENKATACHALAPATHYMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,6866.5%
- 5M.G. NAGAMANIIndependent · IND1,0080.9%
- 6K. ANANDHANIndependent · IND3930.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +58.6%
- DMK share
- 23.9% → 54.3%
- AIADMK share
- 57.2% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —