Constituency
139. Nilakkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-NILAKKOTTAI
AIADMK 57.4%won by 29.6%PT 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 29.6%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 57.4% of the vote here (+57.4%).
- New challengerPuthiya Tamilagam (PT) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.1% of the vote between them, up from 79.7% — 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
1,06,303
Margin
31,494
29.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ANBAZHAGAN.GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK60,97257.4%
- 2AYYAR.KPuthiya Tamilagam · PT29,47827.7%
- 3PONNAMMAL .A.S TMT.Independent · IND7,5337.1%
- 4PERIYASAMY .K.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,5892.4%
- 5JEEVA.M.Independent · IND2,1392.0%
- 6DHANABALAN .RIndependent · IND1,4091.3%
- 7SELVARAJ.VIndependent · IND1,3511.3%
- 8GANDHI.PIndependent · IND8320.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–PT swing
- +29.6%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 57.4%
- PT share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —