Constituency
58. Pennagaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2011
TN-PENNAGARAM
CPI 49.3%won by 7.1%DMK 42.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 7.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+49.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 80.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,95,492
Turnout
83.0%
Valid votes
1,62,288
Margin
11,543
7.11%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPI- 1NANJAPPAN NCommunist Party of India · CPI80,02849.3%
- 2INBASEKARAN P N PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK68,48542.2%
- 3MUNUSAMY MIndependent · IND3,0471.9%
- 4KANDASAMY K PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6601.6%
- 5SHANMUGAM RIndependent · IND1,5461.0%
- 6VENKATESAN MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4780.9%
- 7MUNIAPPAN PIndependent · IND1,2080.7%
- 8SAMYKANNU K KIndependent · IND8530.5%
- 9MUNIRAJ AIndependent · IND6850.4%
- 10BALASUBRAMANIAN PIndependent · IND6750.4%
- 11ELAVARASAN CIndependent · IND6500.4%
- 12PANEERSELVAM KIndependent · IND5020.3%
- 13KAMALANATHAN RIndependent · IND4710.3%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–DMK swing
- +56.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 49.3%
- DMK share
- 49.4% → 42.2%
- Turnout
- — → 83.0%