Constituency
159. Lalgudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-LALGUDI
DMK 68.5%won by 48.4%INC 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 48.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 43.6% to 68.5% of the vote here (+24.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.5% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
1,22,840
Margin
59,504
48.44%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1K.N. NEHRUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK84,11368.5%
- 2J. LOGAMBALIndian National Congress · INC24,60920.0%
- 3PON. PANDIANMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK12,89010.5%
- 4P. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND2670.2%
- 5R. SRIRAMULUIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 6P.K. KRISHNAMOORTHIIndependent · IND1850.2%
- 7C. SREERANGAMMALIndependent · IND1670.1%
- 8N. MOOKKANIndependent · IND1280.1%
- 9S. KANDASAMIIndependent · IND970.1%
- 10A. MANIVANNANIndependent · IND920.1%
- 11RAJAPPAIndependent · IND730.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +59.7%
- DMK share
- 43.6% → 68.5%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —