Constituency
144. Madurai East
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-MADURAI-EAST
CPM 43.3%won by 7.1%DMK 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 7.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 43.3% of the vote here (+43.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.5% of the vote between them, up from 69.9% — 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
74,980
Margin
5,304
7.07%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1NANMARAN .NCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,46143.3%
- 2VELUSAMY .VDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,15736.2%
- 3VASU .N.L.Independent · IND11,83715.8%
- 4BOOMINATHAN M.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,8782.5%
- 5JARINA BEGAM TMT.Janahitha Paksha · JP5860.8%
- 6KAMARAJ .A.C.Janata Dal (United) · JDU5070.7%
- 7BASHEER AHAMED .MIndependent · IND3660.5%
- 8RAJENDRAN .T.R.DFB · DFB1880.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–DMK swing
- +53.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 43.3%
- DMK share
- 46.2% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —