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231. Padmanabhapuram

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996

TN-PADMANABHAPURAM

BJP 31.8%won by 5.3%DMK 26.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.3%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 23.7% to 31.8% of the vote here (+8.0%).
  • New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 1991.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.3% between them, down from 75.6% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
86,408
Margin
4,540
5.25%

Candidates

19 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1VELAYUTHAN, C.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,44331.8%
  2. 2BALA JANATHIPATHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK22,90326.5%
  3. 3LAWRANCE, K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK12,05313.9%
  4. 4NOOR MOHAMED, S.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,74613.6%
  5. 5JOSEPH, T.C.AIICT · AIICT10,94212.7%
  6. 6SELVARAJ, M.Independent · IND3040.4%
  7. 7ARUMUGARAJAN, M.Independent · IND1530.2%
  8. 8SREENIVASA RAMANIndependent · IND1520.2%
  9. 9NAGOOR MEERAN MOHAMED, U.Independent · IND1020.1%
  10. 10PON WILSONIndependent · IND1010.1%
  11. 11ALFRED, N.Independent · IND780.1%
  12. 12ARUL KUMARAN, M.Independent · IND740.1%
  13. 13BAHRUDEEN, M.Independent · IND710.1%
  14. 14MURUGESAN, C.Independent · IND620.1%
  15. 15JOSEPHIN SUNDER, M.Independent · IND600.1%
  16. 16CHELLAPPAN, L.Independent · IND500.1%
  17. 17RESHEED, N.Independent · IND460.1%
  18. 18PONUSWAMY, E.Independent · IND340.0%
  19. 19MONY, S.Independent · IND340.0%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–DMK swing
−18.5%
BJP share
23.7% → 31.8%
DMK share
0.0% → 26.5%
Turnout
— → —
230. Kollachal232. Thiruvattar
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