Constituency
210. Vilathikulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-VILATHIKULAM
AIADMK 46.7%won by 7.9%DMK 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.5% to 7.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
97,171
Margin
7,654
7.88%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHINNAPPAN.PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK45,40946.7%
- 2RAJARAM.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,75538.9%
- 3BALAKRISHNAN.SDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK5,7795.9%
- 4LINGARAJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,0264.1%
- 5JAYARAJ.V.PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1971.2%
- 6NATARAJ.AIndependent · IND1,0771.1%
- 7MURUGAPANDIAN.RAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB7100.7%
- 8GANDHI.MIndependent · IND5410.6%
- 9THANGAMUTHU.TJanata Dal (United) · JDU4600.5%
- 10ALAGESAN.LIndependent · IND2170.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −8.7%
- AIADMK share
- 48.2% → 46.7%
- DMK share
- 31.6% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —