Constituency
68. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
TMCM 50.5%won by 28.2%INC 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 28.2%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 50.5% of the vote here (+50.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 81.8% — the field split more ways.
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
1,03,050
Margin
29,016
28.16%
Candidates
21 contested · winner TMCM- 1S. AZHAGIRITMCM · TMCM52,06650.5%
- 2A. RADHAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC23,05022.4%
- 3K. DEVADOSSPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK19,73719.2%
- 4DURAI KRISHNAMOORTHYMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,1215.9%
- 5N. MANICKAMIndependent · IND2410.2%
- 6R. PALANIVELIndependent · IND2380.2%
- 7K. SARAVANANIndependent · IND2060.2%
- 8M. AZHAPPANIndependent · IND1570.2%
- 9K. PANNEERSELVAMIndependent · IND1530.1%
- 10B. SEKARIndependent · IND1490.1%
- 11A. SANTHANAMIndependent · IND1390.1%
- 12S. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND1280.1%
- 13K. DHARMANIndependent · IND1070.1%
- 14R. MANIVELIndependent · IND980.1%
- 15R. ALAGIRISWAMYIndependent · IND800.1%
- 16T. ARULMOZHIIndependent · IND780.1%
- 17M. JAI SANKARIndependent · IND750.1%
- 18A. PERUMALIndependent · IND680.1%
- 19S.N. NATESANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP590.1%
- 20T. RAMALINGAMIndependent · IND500.0%
- 21T. VENKATESWARANIndependent · IND500.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–INC swing
- +79.4%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —