Constituency
20. Tambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-TAMBARAM
DMK 48.0%won by 8.7%MDMK 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 8.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from TMCM (TMCM) to Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
5,61,888
Margin
48,752
8.68%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJA, S.RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,69,71748.0%
- 2SOMU ,KMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK2,20,96539.3%
- 3DHARMA, KDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK48,5228.6%
- 4SIVARAMAN ,V.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,5982.4%
- 5VENKATESAN, MIndependent · IND2,2490.4%
- 6AKBAR, MTNJC · TNJC1,4030.2%
- 7SEKAR, VSamajwadi Party · SP1,1790.2%
- 8MOHAN, MIndependent · IND7290.1%
- 9SALEEM, MIndependent · IND6820.1%
- 10ELIZABETH RANI, PIndependent · IND5810.1%
- 11RAJESH, NIndependent · IND5550.1%
- 12MANIKANDAN, KIndependent · IND4270.1%
- 13PAKKIRI, AIndependent · IND3920.1%
- 14PALRAJ, GIndependent · IND3720.1%
- 15NANDAKUMAR, PIndependent · IND2750.0%
- 16KRISHNAN, MIndependent · IND2420.0%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–MDMK swing
- −32.7%
- DMK share
- 46.9% → 48.0%
- MDMK share
- 5.4% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —