Constituency
58. Villupuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VILLUPURAM
DMK 58.2%won by 32.3%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 32.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 33.4% to 58.2% of the vote here (+24.9%).
- 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
1,28,581
Margin
41,586
32.34%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1DEIVASIGAMANI @ PONMUDYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK74,89158.2%
- 2PANNEERSELVAM, S.S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK33,30525.9%
- 3PANNEERSELVAM, M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK9,7277.6%
- 4JANAGIRAMAN, G.AIICT · AIICT8,3316.5%
- 5MANI, K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP8480.7%
- 6VAIKUNTHAN, V.Independent · IND3160.2%
- 7ANAVARATHAN, A.Independent · IND2450.2%
- 8ELANGOVAN, A.Independent · IND2010.2%
- 9RAMACHANDRAN, R.Independent · IND1650.1%
- 10MOHAMED ALI JINNA, M.Independent · IND1550.1%
- 11MANAVALAN, R.Independent · IND1180.1%
- 12KRISHNAMURTHY, S.Independent · IND1120.1%
- 13ANNADURAI, M.Independent · IND1030.1%
- 14SADAGOPAN, K.Independent · IND640.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +47.8%
- DMK share
- 33.4% → 58.2%
- AIADMK share
- 48.8% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —