Constituency
69. Vridhachalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-VRIDHACHALAM
PMK 50.1%won by 5.2%DMK 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 5.2%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 32.2% to 50.1% of the vote here (+18.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 69.6% — 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
1,37,440
Margin
7,128
5.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner PMK- 1GOVINDASAMY. DR.RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK68,90550.1%
- 2KUZHANDAI TAMIZHARASAN.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK61,77744.9%
- 3VENGADASALABTHI.GMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,6571.2%
- 4JAYABALAN.G.Independent · IND1,6501.2%
- 5NAGAPPAN. PON.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2300.9%
- 6SENTHILKUMAR .TIndependent · IND1,0110.7%
- 7CHAKKARAVARTHI. KIndependent · IND6090.4%
- 8ASHOKKUMAR.SIndependent · IND3500.3%
- 9BALAKUMAR.KMNKPLP · MNKPLP2510.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +10.4%
- PMK share
- 32.2% → 50.1%
- DMK share
- 37.4% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —