Constituency
186. Valangiman
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-VALANGIMAN
DMK 50.8%won by 21.7%AIADMK 29.1%
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 21.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.0% to 50.8% of the vote here (+16.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.9% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
94,555
Margin
20,511
21.69%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1GOMATHI SRINIVASANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK48,01950.8%
- 2VIVEKANANDAN V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK27,50829.1%
- 3JOHN PANDIYAN S.Independent · IND11,98412.7%
- 4MALATHI M.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,5674.8%
- 5VASU M.Independent · IND9501.0%
- 6PANDIYAN R.Independent · IND4730.5%
- 7BOOBALASUBRAMANIAN P.Janahitha Paksha · JP4330.5%
- 8KALIYAMURTHY P.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3370.4%
- 9GOWTHAMAN M.Independent · IND1950.2%
- 10MAHALINGAM O.Independent · IND890.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +52.3%
- DMK share
- 34.0% → 50.8%
- AIADMK share
- 64.6% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —