Constituency
157. Uppiliapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-UPPILIAPURAM
DMK 62.2%won by 30.6%AIADMK 31.6%
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 30.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 31.3% to 62.2% of the vote here (+30.9%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam 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
1,13,142
Margin
34,568
30.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1KARUPPUSAMI, T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK70,37262.2%
- 2SAROJA, R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK35,80431.6%
- 3RAJENDRAN, P.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,1445.4%
- 4PERIASAMY, P.Independent · IND3890.3%
- 5SELVARANI, T.Independent · IND2590.2%
- 6RAVICHANDRAN, V.Independent · IND1740.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +66.7%
- DMK share
- 31.3% → 62.2%
- AIADMK share
- 67.5% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —