Constituency
67. Kattumannarkoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-KATTUMANNARKOIL
DMK 55.4%won by 16.5%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.6% to 16.5%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 82.1% — 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
1,00,139
Margin
16,517
16.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1VALLALPERUMAN. P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK55,44455.4%
- 2SACHITHANANDAM.R.Indian National Congress · INC38,92738.9%
- 3PARANTHAMAN. R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,6741.7%
- 4MANICKAM. K.S.TYMK · TYMK1,1681.2%
- 5ASOKAN. S.Janata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,0851.1%
- 6VISVANATHAN. L.R.Independent · IND1,0801.1%
- 7RAJENDIRAN.N.R.Independent · IND3870.4%
- 8BOORASAMY.G.UCPI · UCPI3740.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–INC swing
- −29.3%
- DMK share
- 45.8% → 55.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —