Constituency
216. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-TENKASI
AIADMK 51.4%won by 7.2%DMK 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 7.2%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 51.4% of the vote here (+51.4%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — 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
1,21,473
Margin
8,792
7.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ANNAMALAI.K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK62,45451.4%
- 2KARUPPASAMI PANDIAN.V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK53,66244.2%
- 3SANKARASUBRAMANIAN M. ALIAS LALA M. MANIIndependent · IND2,0641.7%
- 4BALASUBRAMANIAN KIndependent · IND1,7121.4%
- 5IYAPPAN.S.Independent · IND8610.7%
- 6SUBRAMANIAN K.Independent · IND7200.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +7.2%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 51.4%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —