Constituency
48. Vellore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-VELLORE
TMCM 52.5%won by 9.6%DMK 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.4% to 9.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 89.3% — 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
1,15,708
Margin
11,124
9.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner TMCM- 1GNANASEKARAN.CTMCM · TMCM60,69752.5%
- 2RAMALINGAM..A.MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,57342.8%
- 3RAJASEKARAN ..SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,0981.8%
- 4ABDUL JAMEEL.RIndependent · IND1,1921.0%
- 5RAMU.AIndependent · IND9590.8%
- 6VARADARAJAN.A.Janahitha Paksha · JP4780.4%
- 7PANNEER SELVAM.NIndependent · IND4360.4%
- 8KARNAKER.C.MSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2750.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–DMK swing
- −61.3%
- TMCM share
- 70.9% → 52.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —