Constituency
105. Coimbatore North
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-COIMBATORE-NORTH
DMK 62.5%won by 46.3%INC 16.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 46.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.6% to 62.5% of the vote here (+31.8%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
82,686
Margin
38,299
46.32%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1DHANDAPANI, C.T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK51,65262.5%
- 2RAJA THANGAVELIndian National Congress · INC13,35316.1%
- 3ACSHAYA ARUMUGAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,5039.1%
- 4GOVINDHARAJAN, S.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,4465.4%
- 5SUBBAIYAN, K.P.KMK · KMK4,3175.2%
- 6KOVAI IBRAHIMJanahitha Paksha · JP2270.3%
- 7SIVAJE RAMACHANDRAN, A.S.ICS · ICS2240.3%
- 8SAKTHIVEL, A.Independent · IND1510.2%
- 9SAMPATH, N.Independent · IND1350.2%
- 10SELVARAJ, S.K.ATMK · ATMK1230.1%
- 11BHAGVAT KUMAR, G.Independent · IND910.1%
- 12RAVICHANDRAN, R.Independent · IND730.1%
- 13SIVARAJU, R.Independent · IND700.1%
- 14USMAN SHARIF, M.A.Independent · IND700.1%
- 15RAMANAN, R.Independent · IND610.1%
- 16ERRIETTIE EKAMBARAMIndependent · IND590.1%
- 17JOTHIMANI, D.Independent · IND550.1%
- 18JUGHRAJIndependent · IND300.0%
- 19SOUKHAT ALI, V.M.Independent · IND290.0%
- 20SWAMINATHAN, T.N. @ TOPAZ AYYERIndependent · IND170.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +66.8%
- DMK share
- 30.6% → 62.5%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 16.1%
- Turnout
- — → —