Constituency
42. Chengam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-CHENGAM
INC 48.4%won by 11.0%MTD 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 48.4% of the vote here (+48.4%).
- New challengerMTD (MTD) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
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
1,11,797
Margin
12,277
10.98%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1POLUR VARADHANIndian National Congress · INC54,14548.4%
- 2SHAMALA.RMTD · MTD41,86837.5%
- 3MUNUSAMY.KIndependent · IND4,7884.3%
- 4MARIMUTHU.AMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,7804.3%
- 5MUTHAMMAL.SIndependent · IND2,4012.1%
- 6ANBALAGAN.PJanata Dal (United) · JDU2,2182.0%
- 7SETTU.MJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,5971.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–MTD swing
- +11.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 48.4%
- MTD share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —