Constituency
129. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-PALANI
DMK 47.5%won by 9.1%AIADMK 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 9.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 37.7% to 47.5% of the vote here (+9.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 93.4% — 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
1,20,386
Margin
10,909
9.06%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1ANBALAKAN.MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK57,18147.5%
- 2PREMA.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK46,27238.4%
- 3SUNDARAM P.KDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK11,3699.4%
- 4CHINNAPPAN @Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6511.4%
- 5PERIASAMY. SIndependent · IND1,5801.3%
- 6VIJAYAKUMAR. SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8490.7%
- 7SAMYKANNU.PIndependent · IND4780.4%
- 8THUNDAIYAN.KIndependent · IND4180.3%
- 9KUMAR.KIndependent · IND3190.3%
- 10KUPPUSAMY.MIndependent · IND2690.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +27.0%
- DMK share
- 37.7% → 47.5%
- AIADMK share
- 55.6% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —