Constituency
134. Cumbum
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-CUMBUM
TMCM 50.7%won by 3.9%BJP 46.8%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.3% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 76.0% — 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
1,12,001
Margin
4,386
3.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner TMCM- 1RAMACHANDRAN O.RTMCM · TMCM56,82350.7%
- 2KRISHNAKUMAR N.K.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP52,43746.8%
- 3SELVAN U PIndependent · IND9010.8%
- 4ANTONY AROCKIARAJ AIndependent · IND5710.5%
- 5RAJAN MPB · PB5520.5%
- 6SIVANANDAN SIndependent · IND4230.4%
- 7SARAVANAN RDFB · DFB2940.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–BJP swing
- −47.2%
- TMCM share
- 54.7% → 50.7%
- BJP share
- 3.5% → 46.8%
- Turnout
- — → —