Constituency
232. Thiruvattar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-THIRUVATTAR
CPM 50.1%won by 20.4%BJP 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 20.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 27.7% to 50.1% of the vote here (+22.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — 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
95,507
Margin
19,497
20.41%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1HEMACHANDRAN.J.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM47,80750.1%
- 2RAJAMONY.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,31029.6%
- 3APPU NADESAN.R.Independent · IND14,94815.7%
- 4ISSAC.K.Nationalist Congress Party · NCP2,1422.2%
- 5HAARRIS.V.Independent · IND9000.9%
- 6THOMAS.D.Independent · IND8970.9%
- 7SASIKUMAR.S.Independent · IND5030.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BJP swing
- +16.0%
- CPM share
- 27.7% → 50.1%
- BJP share
- 23.3% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- — → —