Constituency
179. Pattukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PATTUKKOTTAI
DMK 59.5%won by 28.6%AIADMK 30.9%
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 28.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.8% to 59.5% of the vote here (+23.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
1,17,423
Margin
33,621
28.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1BALASUBRAMANIAN P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,88059.5%
- 2BASKARAN SEENIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK36,25930.9%
- 3RENGANATHAN G.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK9,6568.2%
- 4NAMACHIVAYAM K.M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2681.1%
- 5SAKTHIVEL V.Independent · IND1840.2%
- 6VAITHIYANATHAN N.Independent · IND930.1%
- 7RAMALINGAM N.Independent · IND830.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +55.0%
- DMK share
- 35.8% → 59.5%
- AIADMK share
- 62.1% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —