Constituency
170. Poompuhar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-POOMPUHAR
DMK 49.9%won by 17.9%AIADMK 32.0%
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 17.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 33.7% to 49.9% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.8% between them, down from 87.2% — 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
1,02,827
Margin
18,413
17.91%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1MOHANADASAN G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK51,28549.9%
- 2VIJAYABALAN N.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK32,87232.0%
- 3SAMSUDEEN S.M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK12,22211.9%
- 4GUBENDRA GUNABALAN D.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5,6825.5%
- 5ANBAZHAGAN P.Independent · IND2940.3%
- 6RAJABATHER T.Independent · IND1770.2%
- 7RENGANATHAN G.Independent · IND1390.1%
- 8ELANGOVAN J.Independent · IND780.1%
- 9KALAIMANI P.Independent · IND780.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +37.6%
- DMK share
- 33.7% → 49.9%
- AIADMK share
- 53.5% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —