Constituency
24. Acharapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-ACHARAPAKKAM
DMK 50.6%won by 14.5%AIADMK 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 14.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 38.3% to 50.6% of the vote here (+12.2%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 36.0% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
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
1,09,003
Margin
15,856
14.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1SANKARA VALLI @Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK55,11650.6%
- 2SARASWATHI, MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK39,26036.0%
- 3KANTHAGURUNATHAN, SDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK10,4789.6%
- 4BALASUNDARAM, R.KIndependent · IND1,9261.8%
- 5SHANMUGAM, K.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6291.5%
- 6ANANDAN, GIndependent · IND5940.5%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- PMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −23.8%
- DMK share
- 38.3% → 50.6%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —