Constituency
42. Arcot
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2011
TN-ARCOT
AIADMK 53.1%won by 11.0%PMK 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 11.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 39.6% to 53.1% of the vote here (+13.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 88.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,11,067
Turnout
83.2%
Valid votes
1,75,610
Margin
19,253
10.96%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1R. SRINIVASANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK93,25853.1%
- 2K.L. ELAVAZAGANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK74,00542.1%
- 3M. VELUIndependent · IND3,2111.8%
- 4G. THANIGACHALAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0461.2%
- 5S.R. VIJAYANIndependent · IND9600.5%
- 6C. SRINIVASANIndependent · IND7100.4%
- 7K. BALAMURUGANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4970.3%
- 8S. THIRUNAVUKARASUIndependent · IND3370.2%
- 9K. ANANDANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP3020.2%
- 10V.G. SAMPATHIndependent · IND2840.2%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- PMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–PMK swing
- +20.1%
- AIADMK share
- 39.6% → 53.1%
- PMK share
- 48.7% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → 83.2%