Constituency
176. Vedaranyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VEDARANYAM
DMK 46.9%won by 19.7%INC 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 19.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.4% to 46.9% of the vote here (+12.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.1% between them, down from 83.6% — 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
1,15,473
Margin
22,792
19.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1VEDARATHINAM S.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK54,18546.9%
- 2BALASUBRAMANIAM P.C.V.Indian National Congress · INC31,39327.2%
- 3MEENAKSHISUNDARAM M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK29,25225.3%
- 4KARTHIKEYAN N.A.Independent · IND3320.3%
- 5NATARAJAN K.Independent · IND2290.2%
- 6RAMAMOORTHY R.Independent · IND820.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +34.6%
- DMK share
- 34.4% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —