Constituency
84. Mettur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-METTUR
DMK 44.0%won by 17.3%PMK 26.7%
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 17.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 44.0% of the vote here (+44.0%).
- 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
1,15,540
Margin
20,006
17.32%
Candidates
19 contested · winner DMK- 1GOPAL, P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK50,79944.0%
- 2BALAKRISHNAN, R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK30,79326.7%
- 3SOUNDRAM, P.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK30,01226.0%
- 4RAJAGOPAL, M.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,3362.0%
- 5PADMARAJAN, K.Independent · IND2740.2%
- 6MANI, M.C.Independent · IND2220.2%
- 7RAJU, T.Independent · IND2190.2%
- 8KARUPPANNA GOUNDER, P.K.Independent · IND1970.2%
- 9MANI, R.Independent · IND1380.1%
- 10CHARLES, A.Independent · IND990.1%
- 11PALANISAMY, D.Independent · IND710.1%
- 12PALANIAPPAN, A.Independent · IND660.1%
- 13KATHIRAVAN, A.Independent · IND550.0%
- 14LINGESWARAN, K.TZP · TZP520.0%
- 15RAJENDRAN, K.Independent · IND500.0%
- 16SIDDAN, K.Independent · IND490.0%
- 17SIVALINGAM, P.Independent · IND450.0%
- 18ARTHANARI, M.Independent · IND380.0%
- 19SELLAMUTHU, S.Independent · IND250.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–PMK swing
- +42.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.0%
- PMK share
- 24.8% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —