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Constituency

101. Mettuppalayam

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006

TN-METTUPPALAYAM

AIADMK 44.5%won by 0.1%DMK 44.4%

What changed here

Derived

All 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
1,51,546
Margin
142
0.09%

Since 2001

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
AIADMK
AIADMKDMK swing
−28.7%
AIADMK share
60.0% 44.5%
DMK share
31.2% 44.4%
Turnout