Constituency
106. Coimbatore South
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-COIMBATORE-SOUTH
DMK 47.5%won by 5.8%AIADMK 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 47.5% of the vote here (+47.5%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 41.7% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.2% between them, down from 96.3% — 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
1,09,103
Margin
6,336
5.81%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1PONGALUR PALANISAMY.N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK51,82747.5%
- 2GOPALAKRISHNAN.V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK45,49141.7%
- 3MARY.G.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK7,8867.2%
- 4SHANMUGAM.K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6512.4%
- 5RAMAMOORTHY.P.M.Independent · IND4240.4%
- 6ANBUSELVAM.S.B.Janata Dal (United) · JDU4150.4%
- 7SUBRAMANIAN.P.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP2050.2%
- 8SIVARAJASEKARAN.P.Independent · IND2040.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +5.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 47.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- — → —