Constituency
82. Dharmapuri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-DHARMAPURI
DMK 55.3%won by 32.0%INC 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 32.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.6% to 55.3% of the vote here (+29.7%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,15,730
Margin
37,022
31.99%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1MANOKARAN, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK63,97355.3%
- 2MASE HARURIndian National Congress · INC26,95123.3%
- 3PONNUSAMIAIICT · AIICT13,23011.4%
- 4DEVARAJAN, K.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK9,1617.9%
- 5VEERAPPAN, G.Independent · IND4030.3%
- 6KUMARARAJA, A.Independent · IND3580.3%
- 7KAVERI, K.Independent · IND3410.3%
- 8DURAIRAJ, R.K.Independent · IND3110.3%
- 9NANDAKUMAR, R.L.Independent · IND2940.3%
- 10JAYAVEL, R.Independent · IND2780.2%
- 11MARIA AGUSTIN, A.Independent · IND1590.1%
- 12KANDASAMYIndependent · IND1440.1%
- 13MATHAIYAN, S.A.Independent · IND1270.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +57.5%
- DMK share
- 25.6% → 55.3%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —