Constituency
65. Kurinjipadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KURINJIPADI
DMK 55.0%won by 31.9%AIADMK 23.0%
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 31.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.5% to 55.0% of the vote here (+19.5%).
- 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
1,22,122
Margin
39,013
31.95%
Candidates
17 contested · winner DMK- 1M.R.K. PANNEERSELVAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,15255.0%
- 2N. PANDARINATHANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK28,13923.0%
- 3M. GNANAMOORTHYPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK12,23110.0%
- 4K. BALAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,3879.3%
- 5M. ASHOKKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7171.4%
- 6T. SELVARAJIndependent · IND2310.2%
- 7MUTHUPATTUSAMYIndependent · IND2160.2%
- 8MUTHAZHAGAN, N.Independent · IND1860.2%
- 9G. KUMARAGURUIndependent · IND1390.1%
- 10S.S. NATHANIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 11R. BASKARIndependent · IND1230.1%
- 12VEERAMANI KALIAIndependent · IND910.1%
- 13C. AMIRTHALINGAMIndependent · IND850.1%
- 14R. MOHANDOSSIndependent · IND820.1%
- 15K. LOGANATHANIndependent · IND770.1%
- 16A. BALASUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND720.1%
- 17M.S. IBRAHIMIndependent · IND570.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +43.3%
- DMK share
- 35.5% → 55.0%
- AIADMK share
- 46.9% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —