Constituency
201. Ramanathapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-RAMANATHAPURAM
DMK 51.2%won by 30.7%AIADMK 20.5%
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 30.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.1% to 51.2% of the vote here (+21.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 89.1% — 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
1,16,745
Margin
35,891
30.74%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1RAHMANKHAN, A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK59,79451.2%
- 2SEKAR, S.K.G.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK23,90320.5%
- 3RAMASAMY, T.Independent · IND17,00914.6%
- 4KALANJIYAM, R.Independent · IND7,6476.6%
- 5SINGARAJ, K.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,7964.1%
- 6RAJAN, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1611.9%
- 7RAJAJI, N.Independent · IND3210.3%
- 8ADAIKALARAJ, J.Janahitha Paksha · JP2620.2%
- 9DHARMARAJAN, N.Independent · IND1740.1%
- 10NAGALINGAM, K.Independent · IND1320.1%
- 11SANTHAVALIYAN, L.Independent · IND1240.1%
- 12NADIMUTHU, K.Independent · IND1190.1%
- 13MAHADEVAN, H.Independent · IND1160.1%
- 14RAMANATHANIndependent · IND990.1%
- 15SINDHURANI, A.Independent · IND880.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +59.6%
- DMK share
- 30.1% → 51.2%
- AIADMK share
- 59.0% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —