Constituency
211. Ottapidaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-OTTAPIDARAM
AIADMK 43.3%won by 0.7%PT 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janahitha Paksha (JP) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 0.7%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 26.0% to 43.3% of the vote here (+17.3%).
- New challengerPuthiya Tamilagam (PT) finished second with 42.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.9% of the vote between them, up from 53.4% — 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
90,872
Margin
651
0.72%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SIVAPERUMAL .A.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK39,35043.3%
- 2KRISHNASAMY DR. K.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT38,69942.6%
- 3GURUSAMY KRISHNAN.R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK8,4519.3%
- 4PASUPATHY.CIndependent · IND1,6941.9%
- 5MURUGAN .K.Independent · IND1,1631.3%
- 6KALYANI TMT.PIndependent · IND5970.7%
- 7PALANICHAMY.M.Independent · IND5380.6%
- 8NAINAR .A.Independent · IND3800.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JP
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–PT swing
- −25.3%
- AIADMK share
- 26.0% → 43.3%
- PT share
- 0.0% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- — → —