Constituency
63. Cuddalore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-CUDDALORE
DMK 47.8%won by 4.5%AIADMK 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.0% to 4.5%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 43.3% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- 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
1,40,286
Margin
6,266
4.47%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1IYAPPAN.G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,00347.8%
- 2KUMAR.G.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK60,73743.3%
- 3JAYAKUMAR.G.V.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK7,8665.6%
- 4SIVAKUMAR.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,8031.3%
- 5SRIRAMULU.SIndependent · IND7970.6%
- 6SRIVATHSAN.JIndependent · IND7760.6%
- 7AMUDHAN.A.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP6660.5%
- 8SRIDHAR.G.Independent · IND4260.3%
- 9ARUMUGAM.M.All India Forward Bloc · AIFB2120.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −41.1%
- DMK share
- 45.6% → 47.8%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —