Constituency
127. Udhagamandalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-UDHAGAMANDALAM
INC 47.5%won by 4.8%AIADMK 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.4% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 2001.
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
95,797
Margin
4,559
4.76%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1GOPALAN.BIndian National Congress · INC45,55147.5%
- 2DORAI,K.NAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK40,99242.8%
- 3BENJAMIN JACOB.JDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK4,9635.2%
- 4MURUGESAN.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4991.6%
- 5ANAND KUMAR.JAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB9321.0%
- 6SASI KUMAR.AIndependent · IND7580.8%
- 7KRISHNAN,RIndependent · IND4980.5%
- 8PUKALENTHI,KBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4270.4%
- 9SUBRAMANIAN,KLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1770.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AIADMK swing
- −57.9%
- INC share
- 62.7% → 47.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —