Constituency
2. Harbour
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-HARBOUR
DMK 47.0%won by 0.7%CPI 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.4% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 46.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 86.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
51,563
Margin
336
0.65%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1ANBAZHAGAN.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK24,22547.0%
- 2PANDIAN.DCommunist Party of India · CPI23,88946.3%
- 3PANDIAN.E.BMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,2394.3%
- 4CHANDRAKUMAR .D.PB · PB4901.0%
- 5R.T.RATHNAKUMARIndependent · IND4040.8%
- 6P.N. SRINIVASALUIndependent · IND3160.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPI swing
- −69.9%
- DMK share
- 70.6% → 47.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- — → —