Constituency
87. Yercaud
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-YERCAUD
DMK 45.1%won by 10.9%AIADMK 34.3%
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 10.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 16.8% to 45.1% of the vote here (+28.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.4% between them, down from 89.1% — 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
86,302
Margin
9,394
10.89%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1PERUMAL, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,96445.1%
- 2GUNASEKARAN, R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK29,57034.3%
- 3SHANMUGAM, K.AIICT · AIICT12,90014.9%
- 4KUPPUSAMY, R.Janata Dal · JD3,5894.2%
- 5ESWARAN, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP9701.1%
- 6NATARAJAN @ NADUPAIYAN, V.Independent · IND3090.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +66.5%
- DMK share
- 16.8% → 45.1%
- AIADMK share
- 72.3% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —