Constituency
219. Palayamkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-PALAYAMKOTTAI
DMK 53.1%won by 14.0%AIADMK 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.2% to 14.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.2% of the vote between them, up from 86.8% — 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
1,05,282
Margin
14,748
14.01%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1MOHIDEEN KHAN.T.P.MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK55,93453.1%
- 2MUTHU KARUPPAN.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK41,18639.1%
- 3NAZARETH DURAI.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,3835.1%
- 4MUBARAK AHAMEDSamajwadi Party · SP1,3041.2%
- 5BALAMURUGAN.TIndependent · IND5810.6%
- 6SANKARANARAYANAN.AIndependent · IND3830.4%
- 7KLANTHAI CHANDRASEKARANIndependent · IND3170.3%
- 8AZZEZIndependent · IND1940.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −25.2%
- DMK share
- 63.0% → 53.1%
- AIADMK share
- 23.8% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —