Constituency
100. Edappadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-EDAPPADI
PMK 37.7%won by 7.0%DMK 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 7.0%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 25.0% to 37.7% of the vote here (+12.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.4% between them, down from 83.3% — 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
1,31,287
Margin
9,192
7.00%
Candidates
17 contested · winner PMK- 1GANESAN, I.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK49,46537.7%
- 2MURUGESAN, P.A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,27330.7%
- 3PALANISAMY, K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,03628.2%
- 4ANBUMATHI SELVAN, G.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,7021.3%
- 5KUMAR, N.R.A.P.Independent · IND4900.4%
- 6SHANMUGAM, P.Independent · IND4660.4%
- 7KOLANDAI POOSARI, L.Independent · IND2990.2%
- 8RATHINAM, V.Independent · IND2530.2%
- 9SELLADURAI, S.Independent · IND2030.2%
- 10VANANGAMUDI, S.Independent · IND1980.2%
- 11JAYAPRAKASH, S.Independent · IND1800.1%
- 12MANI, K.Independent · IND1560.1%
- 13SENGODAN, E.P.Independent · IND1420.1%
- 14RAJENDRAN, P.Independent · IND1290.1%
- 15RAMAR, R.Independent · IND1260.1%
- 16SELVAM, E.Independent · IND960.1%
- 17RAVICHANDRA VARMA, M.P.Independent · IND730.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- −1.9%
- PMK share
- 25.0% → 37.7%
- DMK share
- 16.1% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —