Constituency
40. Katpadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2011
TN-KATPADI
DMK 49.5%won by 2.0%AIADMK 47.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 2.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.1% of the vote between them, up from 91.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,90,456
Turnout
79.5%
Valid votes
1,51,498
Margin
2,973
1.96%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAIMURUGANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK75,06449.5%
- 2APPU S.R.K.(A) RADHAKRISHNAN.S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK72,09147.6%
- 3VARADARAJAN.ABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5391.0%
- 4SRIRAM.MIndependent · IND1,0670.7%
- 5JAYAKODI.KIndependent · IND6460.4%
- 6SAMUEL WILSONIJK · IJK5190.3%
- 7BELL KUMAR.SIndependent · IND1360.1%
- 8ASKAR ALI .V.A.M.Independent · IND1290.1%
- 9PALANI.RIndependent · IND1130.1%
- 10APPASAMY.EIndependent · IND970.1%
- 11PANCHACHRAM.KIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −21.3%
- DMK share
- 57.4% → 49.5%
- AIADMK share
- 34.2% → 47.6%
- Turnout
- — → 79.5%