Constituency
71. Rishivandiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-RISHIVANDIYAM
TMCM 61.3%won by 37.7%AIADMK 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 37.7%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 61.3% of the vote here (+61.3%).
- Safe seatTMCM 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
1,06,344
Margin
40,064
37.67%
Candidates
15 contested · winner TMCM- 1SIVARAJ, S.TMCM · TMCM65,23061.3%
- 2ANNADURAI, P.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK25,16623.7%
- 3DURAIRAJ, N.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK10,2639.7%
- 4SUBRAMANIAN, N.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,9713.7%
- 5ANNASAMY, R.K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2830.3%
- 6RAMASAMY, P.Independent · IND2630.2%
- 7RAJASEKARAN, S.Independent · IND1830.2%
- 8RAJAK, M.Independent · IND1820.2%
- 9LAKSHMI KUMAR, S.Independent · IND1780.2%
- 10VIJAYARAMAN, M.Independent · IND1710.2%
- 11VILVAPATHY, M.Independent · IND1420.1%
- 12MARIMUTHU, P.Independent · IND1020.1%
- 13RAJENDRAN, R.Independent · IND780.1%
- 14THOPPALAN, K.Independent · IND700.1%
- 15AKBAR BASHA, A.V.Independent · IND620.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–AIADMK swing
- +99.2%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 61.3%
- AIADMK share
- 61.6% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —