Constituency
71. Rishivandiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-RISHIVANDIYAM
TMCM 52.4%won by 23.4%PNK 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.7% to 23.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPNK (PNK) finished second with 29.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,09,045
Margin
25,532
23.41%
Candidates
4 contested · winner TMCM- 1SIVARAJ S.TMCM · TMCM57,10852.4%
- 2T.K.T MURALIPNK · PNK31,57629.0%
- 3MARUDUR N. DURAIRAJMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK15,47014.2%
- 4ARUMUGAM .GIndependent · IND4,8914.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–PNK swing
- −37.9%
- TMCM share
- 61.3% → 52.4%
- PNK share
- 0.0% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —