Constituency
87. Yercaud
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-YERCAUD
AIADMK 64.4%won by 34.0%BJP 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 34.0%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 34.3% to 64.4% of the vote here (+30.1%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.3% — it polled just 1.1% in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.7% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — 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
99,950
Margin
33,985
34.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ELAYAKANNU. K.T.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK64,31964.4%
- 2GOVINDAN.K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP30,33430.3%
- 3VADIVEL.R.Independent · IND2,4832.5%
- 4SAMPATHKUMAR.P.Independent · IND8560.9%
- 5DHANNALAKSHMI.C.Janata Dal (United) · JDU8470.8%
- 6ALAGESAN.A.Independent · IND3990.4%
- 7RAMASAMY. C.V.Independent · IND3860.4%
- 8ANDI.A.Independent · IND3260.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–BJP swing
- +0.9%
- AIADMK share
- 34.3% → 64.4%
- BJP share
- 1.1% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —