Constituency
146. Melur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-MELUR
AIADMK 46.3%won by 21.4%DMK 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 21.4%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 46.3% of the vote here (+46.3%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 24.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.2% between them, down from 86.8% — 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
1,25,241
Margin
26,838
21.43%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SAMY.RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK58,01046.3%
- 2SAMAYANALLUR SELAVARASU.SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK31,17224.9%
- 3RAJAMANICKAM.K.V.VIndependent · IND26,42821.1%
- 4ELAVARASAN.VEERAMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,9143.1%
- 5RAJAKILI.KIndependent · IND1,7981.4%
- 6DHARMAR AMBALAM.NJanahitha Paksha · JP1,2081.0%
- 7KARUPPANAN.M.KDFB · DFB1,1580.9%
- 8ELANGO.RIndependent · IND7340.6%
- 9RAMAN.KIndependent · IND5180.4%
- 10SELVARAJU.M.PPB · PB3010.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +21.4%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —