Constituency
8. Anna Nagar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-ANNA-NAGAR
DMK 48.2%won by 3.5%PMK 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.6% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 44.7% — it polled just 1.7% in 1996.
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
1,60,469
Margin
5,578
3.48%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1ARCOT VEERASWAMI .NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK77,35348.2%
- 2ARUMUGAM.CPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK71,77544.7%
- 3APPANDURAI.CMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,7084.2%
- 4KUMARAN.MNationalist Congress Party · NCP8540.5%
- 5ASHOK N.S.DSamajwadi Party · SP6870.4%
- 6MOHAMMED ALI.SIndependent · IND6460.4%
- 7ACHUTHAIAH.AIndependent · IND5630.4%
- 8AHAMED. A.RIndependent · IND5060.3%
- 9THAMILSELVI.KIndependent · IND3380.2%
- 10BUPAL. RIndependent · IND3380.2%
- 11SIVAKUMAR.S.SIndependent · IND2830.2%
- 12BASHEER BASHA.RIndependent · IND2280.1%
- 13RAVICHANDRAN.KIndependent · IND1900.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–PMK swing
- −61.9%
- DMK share
- 67.0% → 48.2%
- PMK share
- 1.7% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —