Constituency
10. Thousand Lights
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-THOUSAND-LIGHTS
DMK 51.4%won by 7.6%TMCM 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.8% to 7.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTMCM (TMCM) finished second with 43.8% — it did not contest here 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
95,428
Margin
7,274
7.62%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1STALIN M.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,05651.4%
- 2SEKAR STMCM · TMCM41,78243.8%
- 3MALLIKA TMT.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,5112.6%
- 4SYED FASIUDDIN G.M.Independent · IND5390.6%
- 5RAJKAMAL VIndependent · IND4570.5%
- 6HARRY MIndependent · IND3510.4%
- 7RAVI T.RIndependent · IND1820.2%
- 8SIVARAMAN PIndependent · IND1790.2%
- 9RAMESH RIndependent · IND1450.2%
- 10ANANDARAMAN AIndependent · IND1430.1%
- 11GUNASEKARAN VIndependent · IND830.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–TMCM swing
- −62.1%
- DMK share
- 69.7% → 51.4%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- — → —