Constituency
58. Villupuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-VILLUPURAM
DMK 47.4%won by 1.6%PMK 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.3% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 45.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.1% — 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
1,38,453
Margin
2,205
1.59%
Candidates
12 contested · winner DMK- 1PONMUDY.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK65,69347.4%
- 2R.PASUPATHYPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK63,48845.9%
- 3GOVINDARAJULU.VMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,9822.2%
- 4SADAGOPAN.KIndependent · IND1,8531.3%
- 5MOHAMED ALI JINNA .MIndependent · IND1,1160.8%
- 6PONMUDI .VIndependent · IND8510.6%
- 7KALIYAMOORTHY.GBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7810.6%
- 8FARUKLAL. CIndependent · IND7040.5%
- 9PONMUDI .VIndependent · IND2930.2%
- 10BABU . NIndependent · IND2460.2%
- 11PALANIAPPAN. K.PIndependent · IND2370.2%
- 12SURESHKUMAR.SIndependent · IND2090.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–PMK swing
- −56.7%
- DMK share
- 58.2% → 47.4%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —