Constituency
116. Tiruppur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-TIRUPPUR
CPIM 43.4%won by 4.6%MDMK 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 4.6%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 43.4% of the vote here (+43.4%).
- New challengerMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) finished second with 38.8% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 97.9% — 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
2,44,194
Margin
11,299
4.63%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPIM- 1GOVINDASAMY.CCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM1,06,07343.4%
- 2DURAISAMY.SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK94,77438.8%
- 3PALANISAMY.KDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK27,21711.1%
- 4KARTHIKKEYEAN.A.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,4763.9%
- 5SHANGER.MIndependent · IND1,6090.7%
- 6SUKUMARAN.KSamajwadi Party · SP1,0040.4%
- 7VENKATESAN.BIndependent · IND9660.4%
- 8LINGASAMY.AIndependent · IND7810.3%
- 9MOORTHI.KIndependent · IND6220.3%
- 10SUNDARAPANDIYAN.SAIFBS · AIFBS6160.3%
- 11ALAGAPPAN PERIASAMYIndependent · IND4440.2%
- 12BALAJI.KIndependent · IND3610.1%
- 13SHANMUGAM.V.GIndependent · IND2510.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–MDMK swing
- +4.6%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 43.4%
- MDMK share
- 0.0% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —