Constituency
172. Kuttalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KUTTALAM
DMK 54.1%won by 22.9%AIADMK 31.3%
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 22.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.6% to 54.1% of the vote here (+18.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.4% between them, down from 92.6% — 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
1,12,557
Margin
25,721
22.85%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1KALAYANAM KUTTALAM P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK60,94054.1%
- 2RAJENDRAN M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK35,21931.3%
- 3PAPPA SUBRAMANIANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK8,2677.3%
- 4RAJAMANICKAM R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,4246.6%
- 5MURUGAN A.V.Independent · IND1390.1%
- 6KALIAPERUMAL C.Independent · IND1330.1%
- 7SABARULLA A.R.Independent · IND770.1%
- 8SAMINATHAN S.Independent · IND740.1%
- 9ABDUL JALEEL A.Independent · IND700.1%
- 10NACOORAN D.Independent · IND660.1%
- 11BALASUBRAMANIAMIndependent · IND630.1%
- 12VENKATACHALAM K.Independent · IND480.0%
- 13SUBBARAJ R.Independent · IND370.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +44.3%
- DMK share
- 35.6% → 54.1%
- AIADMK share
- 57.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —