Constituency
76. Kaveripattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KAVERIPATTINAM
DMK 62.5%won by 30.7%AIADMK 31.8%
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 30.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 22.7% to 62.5% of the vote here (+39.8%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
1,16,681
Margin
35,859
30.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1VENKATESAN, P.V.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK72,94562.5%
- 2MUNUSAMY, K.P.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,08631.8%
- 3MEGANATHANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,0322.6%
- 4GOVINDASAMY, V.C.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,5821.4%
- 5MURUGESAN, P.Political Justice Party · PJP9840.8%
- 6RAVI, T.Independent · IND4300.4%
- 7GNANASEKARAN, T.P.Independent · IND2740.2%
- 8THOTLAN, T.Independent · IND1950.2%
- 9RAMACHANDRAN, G.Independent · IND1530.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +77.7%
- DMK share
- 22.7% → 62.5%
- AIADMK share
- 69.7% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —