Constituency
174. Thiruvarur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-THIRUVARUR
DMK 60.0%won by 38.5%INC 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 38.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 60.0% of the vote here (+60.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
1,15,293
Margin
44,367
38.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1ASOHAN A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,21260.0%
- 2ARUMUGA PANDIAN P.Indian National Congress · INC24,84521.5%
- 3VEERASAMY S.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,55117.0%
- 4GANESAN M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2751.1%
- 5SHANMUGAM K.Independent · IND4100.4%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +84.9%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 60.0%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —