Constituency
148. Dindigul
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-DINDIGUL
CPM 47.4%won by 1.9%DMK 45.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 7.1% to 47.4% of the vote here (+40.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 85.8% — 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
1,49,877
Margin
2,779
1.85%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1NAGALAKSHIMI .K.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,00347.4%
- 2BASHEER AHMED . M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK68,22445.5%
- 3LATHA SELVARAJMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,6623.1%
- 4MANIMARAN. R.Independent · IND2,6351.8%
- 5MURUGANANDAM.V.Independent · IND1,6851.1%
- 6BALASUBRAMANI. S.N.TYMK · TYMK1,6681.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–DMK swing
- +60.3%
- CPM share
- 7.1% → 47.4%
- DMK share
- 65.5% → 45.5%
- Turnout
- — → —