Constituency
176. Vedaranyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-VEDARANYAM
DMK 53.7%won by 12.7%CPI 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 12.7%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 41.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.1% — 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
1,18,353
Margin
15,000
12.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1VEDARATHINAM .S.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK63,56853.7%
- 2MUTHARASAN.RCommunist Party of India · CPI48,56841.0%
- 3ILANGOVAN N.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,6783.1%
- 4RAMAMURTHY.RIndependent · IND2,5392.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPI swing
- −34.3%
- DMK share
- 46.9% → 53.7%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- — → —