Constituency
151. Aravakurichi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-ARAVAKURICHI
DMK 38.4%won by 8.5%AIADMK 29.9%
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 8.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.3% between them, down from 91.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,07,268
Margin
9,094
8.48%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1MOHAMMED ISMAIL, S.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,15338.4%
- 2DURAISAMY, V.K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK32,05929.9%
- 3MONJANUR RAMASAMY, P.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK26,20324.4%
- 4GNANASEKARAN, J.Independent · IND4,7674.4%
- 5CHENNIAPPAN, V.S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1381.1%
- 6GUNASEKARAN, K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7370.7%
- 7KUMAR, S.Independent · IND4550.4%
- 8JAYAPAL, G.Independent · IND3990.4%
- 9NATARAJAN, K.Independent · IND2240.2%
- 10ANNADURAI, R.Independent · IND700.1%
- 11DHAYALAN, R.M.Independent · IND630.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +28.6%
- DMK share
- 35.5% → 38.4%
- AIADMK share
- 55.6% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —