Constituency
20. Tambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-TAMBARAM
DMK 46.9%won by 1.7%TMCM 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.5% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTMCM (TMCM) finished second with 45.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 85.4% — 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
3,22,120
Margin
5,431
1.69%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1VAIDIALINGAM M.A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,50,96146.9%
- 2CHAKKARAIPANI REDDIAR THIRU .K.TMCM · TMCM1,45,53045.2%
- 3SOMU.KMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK17,5525.4%
- 4VENUGOPAL P.Independent · IND1,4770.5%
- 5EKAMBARAM T.V.Independent · IND1,1070.3%
- 6SEGAR .A.Nationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1060.3%
- 7MEENAKSHISUNDARAM V.Independent · IND1,0690.3%
- 8KRISHNAN V.Independent · IND5260.2%
- 9SUBASH A.Independent · IND4900.2%
- 10VENKATARATHINAM GIndependent · IND4280.1%
- 11SEKAR M.Independent · IND3770.1%
- 12SRINIVASAN. M.Independent · IND3470.1%
- 13RANJAN S.Independent · IND3290.1%
- 14MINNALSRINIVASAN N.Independent · IND3070.1%
- 15DHANASEKARAN V.Independent · IND2590.1%
- 16NAVANEEDAM (TMT) K.Independent · IND2550.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–TMCM swing
- −63.2%
- DMK share
- 64.9% → 46.9%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —