Constituency
116. Tiruppur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-TIRUPPUR
AIADMK 59.9%won by 21.9%BJP 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 21.9%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 30.1% to 59.9% of the vote here (+29.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.6% — 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
2,12,372
Margin
46,556
21.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SIVASAMI. C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,27,22459.9%
- 2LALITHAKUMARAMANGALAM.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP80,66838.0%
- 3NAGARAJAN .SIndependent · IND1,8780.9%
- 4SHANMUGAM. PIndependent · IND1,0600.5%
- 5DURAISAMY. RIndependent · IND8090.4%
- 6SIVASUBRAMANIAM. K.Independent · IND7330.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–BJP swing
- −5.7%
- AIADMK share
- 30.1% → 59.9%
- BJP share
- 2.5% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —