Constituency
169. Sirkazhi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-SIRKAZHI
DMK 59.3%won by 27.5%AIADMK 31.7%
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 27.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 27.9% to 59.3% of the vote here (+31.4%).
- 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
1,07,973
Margin
29,694
27.50%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1M. PANNEERSELVAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK63,97559.3%
- 2V. BHARATHIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,28131.7%
- 3P. MUTHUSAMYPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5,4615.1%
- 4R. SENTHILSELVANMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,4523.2%
- 5N. GUNASEKARANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6300.6%
- 6R. PANNEERSELVAMIndependent · IND1740.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +60.9%
- DMK share
- 27.9% → 59.3%
- AIADMK share
- 61.3% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —