Constituency
83. Pennagaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-PENNAGARAM
PMK 44.1%won by 12.9%IND 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedPattali Makkal Katchi held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 12.9%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.2% — it polled just 0.6% in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.2% of the vote between them, up from 62.9% — 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
1,11,444
Margin
14,396
12.92%
Candidates
11 contested · winner PMK- 1MANI G.K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK49,12544.1%
- 2PERIANNAN K.N.Independent · IND34,72931.2%
- 3KUMAR .M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK17,37115.6%
- 4PERIANNAN. K.N.Independent · IND2,2902.1%
- 5SEKAR .K.E.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,4661.3%
- 6MURUGAN .NIndependent · IND1,4041.3%
- 7ANBALAGAN.KIndependent · IND1,3181.2%
- 8RAVI.P.UCPI · UCPI1,2621.1%
- 9MURUGAN C.K.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2451.1%
- 10ANBALAGAN.T.C.Independent · IND7250.7%
- 11PERIANNAN N.PIndependent · IND5090.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- PMK
- Winner now
- PMK
- PMK–IND swing
- −18.2%
- PMK share
- 31.6% → 44.1%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —