Constituency
17. Thiruvottiyur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-THIRUVOTTIYUR
AIADMK 54.9%won by 16.4%IND 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 16.4%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 22.7% to 54.9% of the vote here (+32.3%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.5% — it polled just 0.1% in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% 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
2,07,167
Margin
34,041
16.43%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ARUMUGAM.TAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,13,80854.9%
- 2KUMARI ANANDANIndependent · IND79,76738.5%
- 3SEKAR.S.G.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK8,4834.1%
- 4BULLET. J. SELVARAJIndependent · IND2,2211.1%
- 5GUNASEKARAN.SJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,4460.7%
- 6VIJAYAKUMAR.N.D.Samajwadi Party · SP8330.4%
- 7RAJENDRAN.SPB · PB6090.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–IND swing
- −6.1%
- AIADMK share
- 22.7% → 54.9%
- IND share
- 0.1% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —