Constituency
132. Theni
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-THENI
TMCM 62.8%won by 39.8%AIADMK 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 39.8%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 62.8% of the vote here (+62.8%).
- Safe seatTMCM won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,23,522
Margin
49,144
39.79%
Candidates
22 contested · winner TMCM- 1ALAGARAJA, N.R.TMCM · TMCM77,52262.8%
- 2NEDUNCHEZHIYAN, V.R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK28,37823.0%
- 3PONNU PILLAI, G.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK12,80110.4%
- 4IRUMPORAI GUNASEKARAN, S.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,1831.8%
- 5RAMASAMY, M.V.V.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5001.2%
- 6ANDAVAR, P.Janahitha Paksha · JP1760.1%
- 7THANGARAJ, P.Independent · IND1600.1%
- 8MATHIYARAJ, A.Independent · IND1210.1%
- 9KANNAN, S.Independent · IND990.1%
- 10SALEEM, S.Independent · IND800.1%
- 11VEERANAN, A.Independent · IND750.1%
- 12MUTHUVEL, K.Independent · IND700.1%
- 13LAKSHMANARAJ, A.Independent · IND620.1%
- 14ESWARAN, R.Independent · IND540.0%
- 15SAMSUDEEN, J.Independent · IND540.0%
- 16RAMADAS, K.Independent · IND370.0%
- 17SUBRAMANI, T.Independent · IND370.0%
- 18DURAIPANDI, R.Independent · IND310.0%
- 19JOTHI RAMALINGAM, A.K.Independent · IND240.0%
- 20BALASUBRAMANIAM, A.Independent · IND230.0%
- 21SELVARAJ, V.N.Independent · IND220.0%
- 22RAMACHANDRAN, R.Independent · IND130.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–AIADMK swing
- +101.3%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 62.8%
- AIADMK share
- 61.5% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —