Constituency
101. Mettuppalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-METTUPPALAYAM
AIADMK 44.5%won by 0.1%DMK 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 142 votes (0.09%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,51,546
Margin
142
0.09%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHINNARAJ.O.K .All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK67,44544.5%
- 2ARUNKUMAR.BDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,30344.4%
- 3SARASWATHI.V.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK10,8777.2%
- 4JEGANATHAN.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,1872.1%
- 5PREMNATH.R.Independent · IND1,3460.9%
- 6PAPPANNAN.T.K.Independent · IND6920.5%
- 7VEERAKUMAR.N.Janata Dal (United) · JDU3690.2%
- 8CHINNARAJ.P.S.Independent · IND3270.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −28.7%
- AIADMK share
- 60.0% → 44.5%
- DMK share
- 31.2% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —