Constituency
97. Kapilamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-KAPILAMALAI
PMK 41.7%won by 3.7%DMK 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 3.7%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 4.5% to 41.7% of the vote here (+37.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.8% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.
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
1,16,042
Margin
4,312
3.72%
Candidates
12 contested · winner PMK- 1MALAIYAPPASAMY A.R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK48,44741.7%
- 2GANDHISELVAN SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,13538.0%
- 3VEERAPPAN K KIndependent · IND9,9998.6%
- 4KRISHNAMOORTHY K.C.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,5632.2%
- 5TAMILMANI RIndependent · IND2,3412.0%
- 6VELAVAN K.TIndependent · IND1,9841.7%
- 7SHANMUGAM K.K.Independent · IND1,8301.6%
- 8APPAN RIndependent · IND1,7701.5%
- 9RAJAMANI CIndependent · IND1,0220.9%
- 10MUTHUKUMAR DRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD9500.8%
- 11SEKAR K.N.Independent · IND6660.6%
- 12MURUGESAN KIndependent · IND3350.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +55.2%
- PMK share
- 4.5% → 41.7%
- DMK share
- 56.0% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —