Constituency
130. Oddamchatram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-ODDAMCHATRAM
DMK 46.4%won by 1.2%AIADMK 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.5% to 1.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.6% of the vote between them, up from 84.7% — 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
1,14,010
Margin
1,369
1.20%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1CHAKKARAPANI. ARA.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK52,89646.4%
- 2SELLASAMY . A..T.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK51,52745.2%
- 3CHURCHILL. PONMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,5254.0%
- 4LOGANATHAN PIndependent · IND1,9621.7%
- 5ARJUNAN. A.Independent · IND1,2421.1%
- 6MURUGAN. P.Independent · IND5560.5%
- 7MURUGANANDAM. GIndependent · IND4170.4%
- 8KARUPPUCHAMY. P.Independent · IND3530.3%
- 9SUBRAMANI. M.Independent · IND2850.2%
- 10KUPPUSAMY. C.Independent · IND2470.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −31.3%
- DMK share
- 58.6% → 46.4%
- AIADMK share
- 26.1% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —