Constituency
218. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-TIRUNELVELI
DMK 45.8%won by 0.4%AIADMK 45.4%
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 0.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.2% to 45.8% of the vote here (+5.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,42,908
Margin
606
0.42%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1MALAI RAJA NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK65,51745.8%
- 2NAINAR NAGENTHRANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK64,91145.4%
- 3JAYACHANDRAN.SIndependent · IND4,0802.9%
- 4NAMBIRAJAN SAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB2,7091.9%
- 5SIVAKUMAR.K.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,2571.6%
- 6JEYAKUMAR ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4061.0%
- 7VELU . AIndependent · IND5650.4%
- 8RAJI YADHAVIndependent · IND5250.4%
- 9RAJAMANICKAM. T.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4440.3%
- 10CHELLADURAI.SSamajwadi Party · SP1780.1%
- 11SANKAR KUMAR.MIndependent · IND1350.1%
- 12GANESAN.SIndependent · IND990.1%
- 13INBARAJ.EIndependent · IND820.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +1.1%
- DMK share
- 40.2% → 45.8%
- AIADMK share
- 40.9% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —