Constituency
81. Palacodu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PALACODU
DMK 49.7%won by 19.3%AIADMK 30.5%
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 19.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 49.7% of the vote here (+49.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 85.7% — 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
1,14,419
Margin
22,073
19.29%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1VENKATACHALAM. G.L.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK56,91749.7%
- 2GOPAL, C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,84430.5%
- 3MANNAN, K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK13,90912.2%
- 4MADHAIYAN, G.V.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,3075.5%
- 5MUTHURAJ, P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP9440.8%
- 6GOPAL, A.Independent · IND4910.4%
- 7MURUGAN, B.M.Independent · IND2970.3%
- 8MURUGESAN, K.Independent · IND2950.3%
- 9AKKUMARAN, A.Independent · IND2550.2%
- 10RAMASAMY, R.Independent · IND1600.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +81.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 49.7%
- AIADMK share
- 62.2% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —