Constituency
209. Rajapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-RAJAPALAYAM
DMK 38.6%won by 14.6%AIADMK 24.0%
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 14.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 38.6% of the vote here (+38.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.6% 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
1,29,427
Margin
18,939
14.63%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1V.P. RAJANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,98438.6%
- 2P. PRABAKARAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK31,04524.0%
- 3K. DHANUSKODIJanahitha Paksha · JP26,70620.6%
- 4T. SADHAN THIRUMALIKUMARMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK17,86213.8%
- 5M. THANGARAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,8051.4%
- 6C. AYYADURAIIndependent · IND4340.3%
- 7M. MANMATHANIndependent · IND4060.3%
- 8O.S. VELUCHAMIAIICT · AIICT3550.3%
- 9P. KANTHANIndependent · IND2450.2%
- 10P. NATHANIndependent · IND1870.1%
- 11G. GURUSAMYIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 12P. PONRAJIndependent · IND1310.1%
- 13P. RAMJIIndependent · IND570.0%
- 14D. CHELLATHURAI MANOPALIndependent · IND460.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +78.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 38.6%
- AIADMK share
- 63.4% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —