Constituency
106. Coimbatore South
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-COIMBATORE-SOUTH
TMCM 50.1%won by 3.9%BJP 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 53.0% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.6% — 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
82,711
Margin
3,211
3.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner TMCM- 1LAKSHMANAN V.K.TMCM · TMCM41,41950.1%
- 2NANJAPPAN N.R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,20846.2%
- 3BALAN.K.B.Janata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,7832.2%
- 4RAVI PIndependent · IND6920.8%
- 5MANICKAM NIndependent · IND3240.4%
- 6PADMANAPAN .K.Independent · IND2850.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–BJP swing
- −61.0%
- TMCM share
- 68.8% → 50.1%
- BJP share
- 3.9% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —