Constituency
129. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PALANI
DMK 57.9%won by 31.1%AIADMK 26.8%
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 31.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 57.9% of the vote here (+57.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
1,17,924
Margin
36,660
31.09%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1POOVENDHAN, T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK68,24657.9%
- 2KARUPPUCHAMY, P.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK31,58626.8%
- 3NAGARAJAN, A.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,8498.4%
- 4ESWARAN, A.Independent · IND3,5823.0%
- 5BASKARAN, P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,2612.8%
- 6CHINNARAJ, K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6770.6%
- 7MANIMARAN, M.Janahitha Paksha · JP3360.3%
- 8PARAMAN, M.Independent · IND1310.1%
- 9THIRUMALAISAMY, K.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 10ANNADURAI, P.Independent · IND780.1%
- 11ALAGARSAMY, M.Independent · IND630.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +99.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 57.9%
- AIADMK share
- 68.1% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —