Constituency
24. Acharapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-ACHARAPAKKAM
PMK 53.7%won by 15.4%DMK 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 15.4%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 8.3% to 53.7% of the vote here (+45.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.2% — 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
1,00,793
Margin
15,478
15.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PMK- 1SELVARAJ.APattali Makkal Katchi · PMK54,11453.7%
- 2MURUGESAN. T.DR.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,63638.3%
- 3SEKAR. E.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,3973.4%
- 4BALARAMAN. PIndependent · IND2,1532.1%
- 5KADIRVELU. MIndependent · IND1,9431.9%
- 6KOTHANDAM. DIndependent · IND5500.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +63.2%
- PMK share
- 8.3% → 53.7%
- DMK share
- 56.1% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —