Constituency
216. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-TENKASI
DMK 50.0%won by 13.4%MDMK 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 13.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 44.2% to 50.0% of the vote here (+5.8%).
- New challengerMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
1,39,570
Margin
18,658
13.37%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1KARUPPASAMY PANDIAN.VDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,75550.0%
- 2UDAYASURIYAN,RAMAMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK51,09736.6%
- 3RAVI ARUNAN.KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,1903.7%
- 4KAMARAJ.SDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK5,0813.6%
- 5CHANDRAN.SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6071.9%
- 6MARIAPPAN.NIndependent · IND2,0951.5%
- 7MUTHURAJA.AAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,6451.2%
- 8BALASUBRAMANIAN.KIndependent · IND1,1660.8%
- 9THANGAPPAN.S.SIndependent · IND4230.3%
- 10RAVICHANDRAN.RRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD3150.2%
- 11ARUMUGASAMY.PIndependent · IND1960.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–MDMK swing
- −30.8%
- DMK share
- 44.2% → 50.0%
- MDMK share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —