Constituency
96. Namakkal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-NAMAKKAL
INC 42.6%won by 5.6%AIADMK 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.1% to 5.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 36.9% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 91.2% — 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
1,43,999
Margin
8,099
5.62%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1JAYAKUMAR.KIndian National Congress · INC61,30642.6%
- 2SARADHA(TMT).RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,20736.9%
- 3AMUDHA(TMT).PDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK22,40115.6%
- 4NATARAJAN.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1781.5%
- 5NATARAJAN.AIndependent · IND1,4961.0%
- 6VIJAYAMBAL(TMT).ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP8530.6%
- 7RAMADOSS.K.DIndependent · IND5370.4%
- 8KARALAN.RIndependent · IND4420.3%
- 9KANNAN.PLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP4080.3%
- 10DHANAPAL.TIndependent · IND3810.3%
- 11SUBRAMANIAM.AIndependent · IND2860.2%
- 12ANNADURAI.SIndependent · IND2590.2%
- 13VIJAYA.KAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB2450.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AIADMK swing
- −52.5%
- INC share
- 58.1% → 42.6%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —