Constituency
185. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-PAPANASAM
TMCM 56.6%won by 36.9%IND 19.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 36.9%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 56.6% of the vote here (+56.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 19.7% — it polled just 2.0% in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.3% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,03,810
Margin
38,342
36.93%
Candidates
18 contested · winner TMCM- 1N. KARUPPANNA ODAYARTMCM · TMCM58,75756.6%
- 2R. THIRUNAVUKKARASUIndependent · IND20,41519.7%
- 3A.M. MOHANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK8,3268.0%
- 4K. ARUMUGHAMMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,3675.2%
- 5R. VARATHARAJANIndependent · IND4,5954.4%
- 6T.M. MANIIndependent · IND4,1504.0%
- 7N. PALANICHAMYIndependent · IND8060.8%
- 8J. NAINA MOHAMEDIndependent · IND2390.2%
- 9K.A. UMAR HATHABIndependent · IND2130.2%
- 10A. RAGAVANIndependent · IND1860.2%
- 11D. SAMPATH KUMARIndependent · IND1720.2%
- 12K. MOOVEANTHANIndependent · IND1590.2%
- 13R. NAVAMURTHYIndependent · IND1350.1%
- 14T. ABDUL RAHMANIndependent · IND860.1%
- 15N. KANKASABAIIndependent · IND860.1%
- 16SOWRIRAJAN B. KUDANTHAIIndependent · IND500.0%
- 17N. KUMARAVELUIndependent · IND380.0%
- 18R. ALAHARIndependent · IND300.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–IND swing
- +38.9%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 56.6%
- IND share
- 2.0% → 19.7%
- Turnout
- — → —