Constituency
178. Mannargudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-MANNARGUDI
CPI 56.4%won by 16.1%BJP 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.2% to 16.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 40.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.4% — 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
1,25,256
Margin
20,190
16.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SIVAPUNNIYAM .VCommunist Party of India · CPI70,64456.4%
- 2GNANASEKARAN.SBharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,45440.3%
- 3NEDUNCHEYAN.VIndependent · IND1,7221.4%
- 4SENGUTTUVAN VANDAIYUR.R.Independent · IND1,4671.2%
- 5KALIAMURTHY R.V.Independent · IND9690.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJP swing
- −43.7%
- CPI share
- 59.8% → 56.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —