Constituency
112. Dharapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-DHARAPURAM
DMK 55.5%won by 20.6%AIADMK 34.9%
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 20.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 28.1% to 55.5% of the vote here (+27.4%).
- 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
1,11,772
Margin
23,038
20.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1R. SARASWATHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK62,02755.5%
- 2P. EASWARAMURTHIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK38,98934.9%
- 3K. MAYAVANMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK8,1827.3%
- 4K.P. VELLIANGIRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,3681.2%
- 5K. VINCENTPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5830.5%
- 6A. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND3100.3%
- 7K. MARIAPPANIndependent · IND2040.2%
- 8P. RAJENDRANIndependent · IND1090.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +58.0%
- DMK share
- 28.1% → 55.5%
- AIADMK share
- 65.5% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —