Election
Constituency

22. Chengalpattu

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001

TN-CHENGALPATTU

PMK 43.5%won by 4.3%DMK 39.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 4.3%.

  • PMK vote sharePMK went from 10.4% to 43.5% of the vote here (+33.1%).
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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
1,20,607
Margin
5,149
4.27%

Candidates

10 contested · winner PMK
  1. 1ARUMUGAM KPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK52,46543.5%
  2. 2VISWANATHAN VDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK47,31639.2%
  3. 3SATHYA EMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK15,61712.9%
  4. 4VENKATESAN VIndependent · IND1,6631.4%
  5. 5RAMESH KPB · PB9900.8%
  6. 6SUBRAMANIAN EIndependent · IND8260.7%
  7. 7GOPALAKRISHNAN NKAADMK · KAADMK5720.5%
  8. 8BALARAMAN .SJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS5070.4%
  9. 9RAMADOSS.RIndependent · IND3430.3%
  10. 10AMUL RANI RIndependent · IND3080.3%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
PMKflipped
PMK–DMK swing
+51.4%
PMK share
10.4% → 43.5%
DMK share
57.5% → 39.2%
Turnout
— → —
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