Constituency
185. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-PAPANASAM
TMCM 50.4%won by 6.0%DMK 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.9% to 6.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 44.4% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 76.3% — 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
1,10,844
Margin
6,632
5.98%
Candidates
6 contested · winner TMCM- 1RAMKUMAR MTMCM · TMCM55,83050.4%
- 2KALYANASUNDARAM SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,19844.4%
- 3SAMBATH NMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,4802.2%
- 4ABDULLAH AIndependent · IND1,5081.4%
- 5SENTHAMARAI SELVI RIndependent · IND1,3291.2%
- 6KARUPPASAMI KIndependent · IND4990.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–DMK swing
- −50.6%
- TMCM share
- 56.6% → 50.4%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —