Constituency
209. Rajapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-RAJAPALAYAM
AIADMK 39.4%won by 0.3%DMK 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 87.9% — 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
1,48,122
Margin
493
0.33%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHANDRA. M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK58,32039.4%
- 2RAJAN.V PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK57,82739.0%
- 3KALIMUTHU.PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,2188.9%
- 4AYYANAR. N.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK10,2516.9%
- 5VIJAYAKUMARI. R.All India Forward Bloc · AIFB4,0822.8%
- 6CHELLAPANDI. M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6401.1%
- 7MUNIASAMY. PIndependent · IND1,2100.8%
- 8MADASAMY.IIndependent · IND4850.3%
- 9MANMATHAN.M.Independent · IND4030.3%
- 10PERIYASHAMY. A.Independent · IND1810.1%
- 11DURAIBALAN. D.Independent · IND1790.1%
- 12SEEINIVASAN. V.Independent · IND1700.1%
- 13THANGAMUTHU.MIndependent · IND1560.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −7.1%
- AIADMK share
- 47.6% → 39.4%
- DMK share
- 40.2% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —