Constituency
155. Kulithalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KULITHALAI
DMK 49.2%won by 14.4%AIADMK 34.8%
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 14.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 28.8% to 49.2% of the vote here (+20.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.9% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
1,23,046
Margin
17,750
14.43%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1R. SELVAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK60,52149.2%
- 2A. PAPPASUNDARAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,77134.8%
- 3R. PUGALENDHIMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK11,3569.2%
- 4P. KALIAPPANIndependent · IND5,1324.2%
- 5E. DRAVIDA MANIIndependent · IND9950.8%
- 6L. SRIRENGA REDDIARJanahitha Paksha · JP5780.5%
- 7A.P. ERAJALINGAMIndependent · IND5390.4%
- 8N. KARUPPAIANIndependent · IND2930.2%
- 9A. THANGAVELUIndependent · IND2270.2%
- 10J. ANBUMOZHIIndependent · IND1650.1%
- 11M. J. SELVANATHANIndependent · IND1430.1%
- 12S. AROKIAMIndependent · IND1290.1%
- 13T. MUTHUSAMY POOSARIIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 14K.S. MOHANIndependent · IND760.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +55.5%
- DMK share
- 28.8% → 49.2%
- AIADMK share
- 69.8% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —