Constituency
143. Madurai Central
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-MADURAI-CENTRAL
TMCM 46.5%won by 0.2%DMK 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 0.2%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 46.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.3% — 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
73,912
Margin
147
0.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner TMCM- 1HAKEEM.M.ATMCM · TMCM34,39346.5%
- 2PAULRAJ.SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,24646.3%
- 3ASAITHAMBI.SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,4483.3%
- 4JOHN MOSES.KJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS8021.1%
- 5STALIN.AJanahitha Paksha · JP7061.0%
- 6SULAIGABEVE.A TMT.Independent · IND4020.5%
- 7KARUNANITHY.MIndependent · IND3640.5%
- 8SAKUNTHALA ARUNAGIRI TMT.Rashtriya Lok Dal · RLD2950.4%
- 9BOSE.ACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2560.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–DMK swing
- −46.5%
- TMCM share
- 46.7% → 46.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- — → —