Constituency
224. Sattangulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-SATTANGULAM
TMCM 49.4%won by 7.4%BJP 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedTMCM held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.0% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.0% — 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
77,521
Margin
5,766
7.44%
Candidates
11 contested · winner TMCM- 1MANINADAR .S.STMCM · TMCM38,30849.4%
- 2RAJAKKANNAN. A.N.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,54242.0%
- 3STALIN.B.Independent · IND2,6003.4%
- 4EMI SELVI .D.Independent · IND2,0792.7%
- 5PAUL .R.JJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS7090.9%
- 6SANTHAKUMAR .R.Independent · IND3620.5%
- 7JAYAPRAKASH NARAYANAN.M.B.Independent · IND2470.3%
- 8JOHNJEBARAJ.I.Independent · IND2200.3%
- 9ESAKKIMUTHUNADAR.PIndependent · IND1660.2%
- 10AUGUSTINEEBENEZER. T.Independent · IND1610.2%
- 11PANDI.M.Independent · IND1270.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- TMCM
- TMCM–BJP swing
- −37.5%
- TMCM share
- 54.5% → 49.4%
- BJP share
- 9.6% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —