Constituency
170. Poompuhar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-POOMPUHAR
PMK 46.1%won by 0.8%AIADMK 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 0.8%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 0.0% to 46.1% of the vote here (+46.1%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 964 votes (0.80%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
1,20,015
Margin
964
0.80%
Candidates
11 contested · winner PMK- 1PERIYASAMY.KPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK55,37546.1%
- 2POUNRAJ.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK54,41145.3%
- 3MAYA VENKATESAN.MSamajwadi Party · SP3,3282.8%
- 4PRABAKARAN.V.RDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK2,3952.0%
- 5KRISHNAMOORTHY.K.ABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0620.9%
- 6VENGATESAN.MARIIndependent · IND8520.7%
- 7BALAKRISHNAN.KIndependent · IND8030.7%
- 8KARUNANITHI.AIJP · IJP6260.5%
- 9CHAKRAVARTHI.KIndependent · IND4390.4%
- 10SARASWATHI.MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3790.3%
- 11MALARVIZHI.DIndependent · IND3450.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–AIADMK swing
- +51.4%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- AIADMK share
- 50.5% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —