Constituency
161. Varahur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VARAHUR
DMK 52.0%won by 19.6%AIADMK 32.4%
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 19.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.3% to 52.0% of the vote here (+21.7%).
- 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
1,07,909
Margin
21,151
19.60%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAISAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK56,07652.0%
- 2PALANIMUTHU, A.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,92532.4%
- 3SIVAGNANAMANI, J.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK11,48710.6%
- 4GANDHI, A.Independent · IND2,4082.2%
- 5PALANIMUTHU, M.Janata Dal · JD2,0151.9%
- 6KAMARAJ, P.Janahitha Paksha · JP3990.4%
- 7GANAPATHY, M.Independent · IND2090.2%
- 8SUBRAMANIAN, P.Independent · IND1950.2%
- 9RAMALINGAM, R.Independent · IND1950.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +47.0%
- DMK share
- 30.3% → 52.0%
- AIADMK share
- 57.7% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —