Constituency
206. Virudhunagar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-VIRUDHUNAGAR
MDMK 38.8%won by 3.2%INC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), which now leads by 3.2%.
- MDMK vote shareMDMK went from 12.7% to 38.8% of the vote here (+26.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.7% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 81.9% — 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
1,30,333
Margin
4,107
3.15%
Candidates
10 contested · winner MDMK- 1VARADHARAJAN.R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK50,62938.8%
- 2DAMODARAN.S.Indian National Congress · INC46,52235.7%
- 3SUBBURAJ.A.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK15,57512.0%
- 4SELVAKUMARESAN.ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,2414.8%
- 5SELVAM.AAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB5,4754.2%
- 6ESWARAN.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,2552.5%
- 7RAMAR.PIndependent · IND1,2941.0%
- 8SEKAR.GIndependent · IND4960.4%
- 9DURAIRAJA P.T.CIndependent · IND4410.3%
- 10MURUGAN.R.Independent · IND4050.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- MDMKflipped
- MDMK–INC swing
- −9.5%
- MDMK share
- 12.7% → 38.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —