Constituency
72. Kallakurichi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KALLAKURICHI
DMK 59.8%won by 28.3%AIADMK 31.6%
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 28.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 26.9% to 59.8% of the vote here (+33.0%).
- 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
1,11,956
Margin
31,645
28.27%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1R. MOOKKAPPANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK66,98159.8%
- 2P. MOHANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK35,33631.6%
- 3K. NARKUNAMAIICT · AIICT6,6045.9%
- 4K. VENKATAPATHYMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,6841.5%
- 5C. PACHAYAPILLAIIndependent · IND3730.3%
- 6BALA. GOVINDARAJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3630.3%
- 7K. LAKSHMIIndependent · IND2680.2%
- 8T. SELVARAJIndependent · IND2060.2%
- 9A. SUYARAJIndependent · IND1410.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +65.8%
- DMK share
- 26.9% → 59.8%
- AIADMK share
- 64.4% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —