Constituency
138. Usilampatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-USILAMPATTI
FBL 43.3%won by 10.0%DMK 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 56.5% to 10.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 32.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
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
90,594
Margin
9,067
10.01%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1SANTHANAM.LFBL · FBL39,24843.3%
- 2RAMASAMY.S.ODravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK30,18133.3%
- 3KATHIRAVAN.P.VIndependent · IND9,83410.9%
- 4MURUGAN.AJanahitha Paksha · JP7,4558.2%
- 5RATHINAM.T.K.PMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,3861.5%
- 6RAJESWARI KASINATHAN.P.K.M TMT.Independent · IND1,0231.1%
- 7THINAGARAN ALIAS DURAISINGAM .NIndependent · IND7050.8%
- 8SUBRAMANIAN.AIndependent · IND4550.5%
- 9GANESAN.P.K.MIndependent · IND3070.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–DMK swing
- −66.2%
- FBL share
- 76.2% → 43.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —