Constituency
198. Sivaganga
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-SIVAGANGA
DMK 60.6%won by 31.1%AIADMK 29.6%
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 31.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 24.7% to 60.6% of the vote here (+35.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.2% between them, down from 97.4% — 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
1,06,254
Margin
33,001
31.06%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1KIRUTTINAN PASUMPON, THA.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,43860.6%
- 2K.R. MURUGANANDAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK31,43729.6%
- 3KRISHNAN PERIMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,3276.9%
- 4CHOCKALINGAM, N.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5331.4%
- 5SADUMANGALASWAMY @ ANBUMALAIKANNANIndependent · IND6960.7%
- 6DHAVAMANI, M.Independent · IND2750.3%
- 7MUTHUSAMY BHARATHIIndependent · IND2150.2%
- 8PALANIYANDI, K.Independent · IND2020.2%
- 9SAROJAIndependent · IND1310.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +79.0%
- DMK share
- 24.7% → 60.6%
- AIADMK share
- 72.7% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → —