Constituency
6. Purasawalkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-PURASAWALKAM
DMK 48.5%won by 2.6%TMCM 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 2.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 48.5% of the vote here (+48.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — 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
1,43,574
Margin
3,802
2.65%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1RANGANATHAN BDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,68148.5%
- 2VETRIIVEL PTMCM · TMCM65,87945.9%
- 3GURUNATHAN SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,9023.4%
- 4ANTONY XAVIER RJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,0330.7%
- 5VENKATARAMANI JIndependent · IND5980.4%
- 6PETER SOLOMONIndependent · IND3890.3%
- 7MURUGAN MIndependent · IND2610.2%
- 8E.M. ARUMUGAMIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 9MUTHARASAN VIndependent · IND2160.2%
- 10SO.MA.RAMACHANDRANIndependent · IND2020.1%
- 11SUDARSON M.SSPSP · SPSP1940.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–TMCM swing
- +73.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 48.5%
- TMCM share
- 70.6% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —