Constituency
79. Harur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-HARUR
CPI 53.0%won by 25.2%DMK 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 25.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 53.0% of the vote here (+53.0%).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,32,781
Margin
33,479
25.21%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1KRISHNAMOORTHY VCommunist Party of India · CPI70,43353.0%
- 2PERIYASAMY DDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,95427.8%
- 3PALANI MIndependent · IND13,81910.4%
- 4VENKATESH VIndependent · IND3,1912.4%
- 5BUDTHIRAN.MMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,8942.2%
- 6PERIASAMI V.K.Independent · IND1,9611.5%
- 7SAKKAN KIndependent · IND1,6641.3%
- 8SIVARAMAN VIndependent · IND1,1730.9%
- 9SIVANATHAN.KIndependent · IND6920.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–DMK swing
- +80.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 53.0%
- DMK share
- 55.6% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —