Constituency
217. Ottapidaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2011
TN-OTTAPIDARAM
PT 56.4%won by 19.9%DMK 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Puthiya Tamilagam (PT), which now leads by 19.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- PT vote sharePT went from 0.0% to 56.4% of the vote here (+56.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,67,524
Turnout
75.5%
Valid votes
1,26,453
Margin
25,126
19.87%
Candidates
10 contested · winner PT- 1DR.K.KRISHNASAMYPuthiya Tamilagam · PT71,33056.4%
- 2S.RAJADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,20436.5%
- 3A.MUTHUPALAVESAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6142.1%
- 4M.A. DHARMARIndependent · IND1,6591.3%
- 5G.RAJKUMARIndependent · IND9700.8%
- 6C. SANKARIndependent · IND9490.8%
- 7C.PARAMASIVANIndependent · IND9000.7%
- 8D.CHANDRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP7850.6%
- 9R.S. BALASUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND7030.6%
- 10G.MADASAMYIndependent · IND3390.3%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- PTflipped
- PT–DMK swing
- +43.6%
- PT share
- 0.0% → 56.4%
- DMK share
- 23.7% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → 75.5%