Constituency
63. Cuddalore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-CUDDALORE
DMK 45.6%won by 0.0%TMCM 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.7% to 0.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTMCM (TMCM) finished second with 45.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.9% — 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
1,19,862
Margin
34
0.03%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1PUGAZHENDI .EDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK54,67145.6%
- 2VENKATESAN .P.R.S.TMCM · TMCM54,63745.6%
- 3PATHMANABAN .SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,1195.9%
- 4SRIRAMULU S.Independent · IND1,2841.1%
- 5MURUGANANTHAM .SPB · PB9290.8%
- 6SENTHILKUMAR .DIndependent · IND6850.6%
- 7VIRUTHAGIRI R.MNKPLP · MNKPLP5370.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–TMCM swing
- −62.2%
- DMK share
- 62.3% → 45.6%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —