Election
Constituency

16. Ponneri

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001

TN-PONNERI

CPI 54.6%won by 18.4%DMK 36.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 18.4%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 54.6% of the vote here (+54.6%).

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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Valid votes
1,49,143
Margin
27,390
18.36%

Candidates

10 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1KANNAN.A.S.Communist Party of India · CPI81,40854.6%
  2. 2SUNDARAM.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK54,01836.2%
  3. 3DURAIKKANNU.P.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,3192.9%
  4. 4DEVARAJAN.GIndependent · IND3,7532.5%
  5. 5RATHINAM.A.D.Independent · IND2,2111.5%
  6. 6JAYASEELAN.MPB · PB1,3260.9%
  7. 7MARAN.N.Independent · IND8270.6%
  8. 8JANAKIRAMAN.SCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7240.5%
  9. 9SIVAKUMAR.K.S.Independent · IND2810.2%
  10. 10PRATHAB CHANDRAN.SIndependent · IND2760.2%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPI–DMK swing
+80.1%
CPI share
0.0% → 54.6%
DMK share
61.7% → 36.2%
Turnout
— → —
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