Constituency
146. Melur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-MELUR
AIADMK 47.3%won by 2.3%INC 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.4% to 2.3%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 45.0% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 71.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,35,283
Margin
3,173
2.35%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SAMY.RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK64,01347.3%
- 2RAVICHANDRAN.K.V.VIndian National Congress · INC60,84045.0%
- 3RAJARAM.C.TDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK5,2693.9%
- 4PANNEER SELVAM.MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2921.0%
- 5VAIRAVAN.RIndependent · IND1,1430.8%
- 6SUBRAMANIAN.OAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,0180.8%
- 7PURUSHOTHAMAN.SJanahitha Paksha · JP5500.4%
- 8SENGAIMUNI.RIndependent · IND4680.3%
- 9PERIYASWAMY.CIndependent · IND2810.2%
- 10SELVAGANESAN.KIndependent · IND2110.2%
- 11KANNAN.MIndependent · IND1980.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −44.0%
- AIADMK share
- 46.3% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- — → —