Constituency
164. Jayankondam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-JAYANKONDAM
DMK 42.9%won by 10.2%PMK 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 10.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 24.2% to 42.9% of the vote here (+18.7%).
- 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
1,22,101
Margin
12,490
10.23%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1GANESAN K.C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK52,42142.9%
- 2GURUNATHAN ALIAS GURUPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK39,93132.7%
- 3MASILAMANI N.Indian National Congress · INC22,50018.4%
- 4DHANA SEKHARMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,6314.6%
- 5RAMALINGAM, T.Independent · IND9620.8%
- 6SENTAMIL SELVIIndependent · IND2480.2%
- 7PANCHAMIRTHAM S.Janahitha Paksha · JP2210.2%
- 8PATTUSAMY ASANCIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 9ANNA TK.Independent · IND660.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–PMK swing
- +16.1%
- DMK share
- 24.2% → 42.9%
- PMK share
- 30.1% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —