Constituency
69. Vridhachalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VRIDHACHALAM
DMK 37.4%won by 5.2%PMK 32.2%
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 5.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 20.7% to 37.4% of the vote here (+16.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 77.7% — 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
1,31,213
Margin
6,885
5.25%
Candidates
18 contested · winner DMK- 1TAMIZHARASAN M.A.B.L. KUZHANDAIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,10337.4%
- 2GOVINDASAMY, R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK42,21832.2%
- 3RAMANATHAN, C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK30,16623.0%
- 4SRINIVASAN. M.M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,3494.1%
- 5RAJENDRAN, A.Independent · IND2,2021.7%
- 6DEIVANEEDHI, S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4390.3%
- 7CHAKARAVARTHI, P.R.Janahitha Paksha · JP3050.2%
- 8POOMALAI, R.Independent · IND2100.2%
- 9RAMAKRISHNAN, T.Independent · IND1940.1%
- 10NAMBIYAR, K.Independent · IND1720.1%
- 11KUNJITHAPATHAM, R.Independent · IND1710.1%
- 12SHAMSUDEEN, M.Independent · IND1700.1%
- 13ASAN MOHAMED, A.Independent · IND1520.1%
- 14NAGAPPAN, P.Independent · IND1110.1%
- 15RAGUNATHAN, N.V.Independent · IND820.1%
- 16SUBRAMANIIndependent · IND780.1%
- 17JANIBASHA, D.Independent · IND620.0%
- 18PURUSHOTHAMAN, G.P.Independent · IND290.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–PMK swing
- +17.2%
- DMK share
- 20.7% → 37.4%
- PMK share
- 32.7% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —