Constituency
131. Periyakulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-PERIYAKULAM
AIADMK 49.8%won by 10.8%DMK 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 10.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,37,287
Margin
14,834
10.81%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PANNEER SELVAM.OAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK68,34549.8%
- 2MOOKAIAH.LDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK53,51139.0%
- 3ABDUL KATHER.MDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK11,1058.1%
- 4RAJAPANDIYAN.PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0970.8%
- 5SENTHIL KUMAR GBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9070.7%
- 6RAJA.K.SIndependent · IND4900.4%
- 7RAJAGOPAL.CIndependent · IND4400.3%
- 8JAWAHAR.NIndependent · IND3860.3%
- 9ANANDA MURUGAN.TAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB2940.2%
- 10POMMURASU.MIndependent · IND1740.1%
- 11PANNEER SELVAM.PIndependent · IND1280.1%
- 12PERIYA SUBBAIYAN.PIndependent · IND1260.1%
- 13SELVAMANI RAJENDRANIndependent · IND880.1%
- 14PARAMASIVAM.TIndependent · IND850.1%
- 15ABDUL RAHIM.SIndependent · IND570.0%
- 16SIVAKUMAR.AIndependent · IND540.0%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −4.9%
- AIADMK share
- 54.3% → 49.8%
- DMK share
- 38.6% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —