Constituency
174. Thiruvarur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-THIRUVARUR
DMK 47.6%won by 1.1%CPM 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.5% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 81.6% — 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
1,22,652
Margin
1,314
1.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1ASOKAN. A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK58,42547.6%
- 2RENGASAMY .K.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,11146.6%
- 3KAMALAVENDHAN. A.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,8462.3%
- 4VEERASAMY .S.Independent · IND2,3751.9%
- 5ULAGANATHAN .UIndependent · IND1,3311.1%
- 6VASUDEVAN .VIndependent · IND5640.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPM swing
- −42.0%
- DMK share
- 60.0% → 47.6%
- CPM share
- 17.0% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —