Constituency
134. Cumbum
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-CUMBUM
TMCM 54.7%won by 33.3%IND 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 33.3%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 54.7% of the vote here (+54.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 21.3% — it polled just 0.2% in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.0% between them, down from 91.0% — 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
1,07,265
Margin
35,740
33.32%
Candidates
13 contested · winner TMCM- 1RAMACHANDRAN, O.R.TMCM · TMCM58,62854.7%
- 2GOPALAN, R.T.Independent · IND22,88821.3%
- 3SOMASUNDARAM, K.A.Indian National Congress · INC14,12913.2%
- 4DHARMARAJ, S.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,8726.4%
- 5RAJENDRAN, A.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,7973.5%
- 6AHAMED ZUBER, M.Independent · IND2530.2%
- 7GANESAN, M.Independent · IND1280.1%
- 8MURUGESAN, M.Independent · IND1220.1%
- 9KANNIMUTHU, P.Independent · IND1200.1%
- 10PANDIARAJA, G.Independent · IND990.1%
- 11VENKATESAN, S.Independent · IND850.1%
- 12ABDUL KADIR, A.Independent · IND730.1%
- 13NANDAGOPAL, A.Independent · IND710.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–IND swing
- +33.6%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 54.7%
- IND share
- 0.2% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —