Constituency
59. Mugaiyur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-MUGAIYUR
DMK 61.8%won by 37.7%AIADMK 24.1%
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 37.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.6% to 61.8% of the vote here (+31.2%).
- 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
1,10,432
Margin
41,596
37.67%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1SAMPATH, A.G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK68,21561.8%
- 2ARANGARATHAN, T.M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK26,61924.1%
- 3KALIVARADHAN, V.A.T.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK10,3719.4%
- 4RAJAGOPAL, P.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,9502.7%
- 5YESU @ YESUDASAN, V.Independent · IND7110.6%
- 6KOVALAN,I.V.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5370.5%
- 7MOHANRAJ, G.Independent · IND2320.2%
- 8RAJENDRAN, S.Independent · IND2040.2%
- 9SUBRAMANI, S.Independent · IND1460.1%
- 10SIVAGLANAM, A.Independent · IND1160.1%
- 11GOVINDARAJAN, E.Independent · IND1110.1%
- 12PERUMAL, P.Independent · IND1110.1%
- 13SUBRAMANIAM, A.Independent · IND1090.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +63.0%
- DMK share
- 30.6% → 61.8%
- AIADMK share
- 55.9% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —