Constituency
195. Karaikudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-KARAIKUDI
INC 48.7%won by 12.4%AIADMK 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 48.7% of the vote here (+48.7%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 36.3% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 95.3% — 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
1,31,432
Margin
16,246
12.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SUNDARAM.NIndian National Congress · INC64,01348.7%
- 2VENKATACHALAM O.LAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK47,76736.3%
- 3BASKARAN .DDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK13,09410.0%
- 4RAMAN . NKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,7872.9%
- 5MOHAMED HANIFA.HIndependent · IND1,8331.4%
- 6ALAGAPPAN.PLIndependent · IND9380.7%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AIADMK swing
- +12.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 48.7%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —