Constituency
153. Krishnarajapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KRISHNARAJAPURAM
DMK 50.3%won by 13.3%AIADMK 37.1%
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 13.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 22.8% to 50.3% of the vote here (+27.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
1,14,484
Margin
15,177
13.26%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1S. NAGARATHINAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK57,63850.3%
- 2A. ARIVALAGANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,46137.1%
- 3S. THIRUNAVUKKARASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,4425.6%
- 4T.V. AMBALAVANANAIICT · AIICT5,8865.1%
- 5P. RAMACHANDRANIndependent · IND7970.7%
- 6K. POOSAIMANIJanahitha Paksha · JP6360.6%
- 7A. GANESANIndependent · IND2130.2%
- 8M. RASUIndependent · IND1830.2%
- 9M. APPAVOOIndependent · IND1630.1%
- 10S.K. SEKARIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +66.5%
- DMK share
- 22.8% → 50.3%
- AIADMK share
- 76.0% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —