Constituency
131. Periyakulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-PERIYAKULAM
AIADMK 54.3%won by 15.7%DMK 38.6%
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 15.7%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 27.6% to 54.3% of the vote here (+26.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — 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
1,14,463
Margin
17,920
15.66%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PANNEER SELVAM OAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK62,12554.3%
- 2ABUTHAHIR MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,20538.6%
- 3JEYARAMAN AMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,9655.2%
- 4BEERKABEEF KIndependent · IND1,2221.1%
- 5NAGARAJAN MIndependent · IND5250.5%
- 6ELAMURUGAN KIndependent · IND4210.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +34.8%
- AIADMK share
- 27.6% → 54.3%
- DMK share
- 46.7% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —