Constituency
2. Ponneri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PONNERI
AIADMK 48.6%won by 9.8%DMK 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.2% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.3% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,50,403
Turnout
78.9%
Valid votes
1,97,648
Margin
19,336
9.78%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AIADMK- 1BALARAMAN PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK95,97948.6%
- 2PARIMALAM K DOCTORDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK76,64338.8%
- 3PANDIAN APattali Makkal Katchi · PMK9,5864.9%
- 4SENTHIL KUMAR VViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK5,5662.8%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2841.2%
- 6GANESAN KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0671.0%
- 7VINOTH BABU SNTK · NTK1,6200.8%
- 8RAJA SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1520.6%
- 9KOTTEESWARAN KYSP · YSP6960.4%
- 10RUKUMANGADAN LIndependent · IND6400.3%
- 11DILLI BABU VIndependent · IND5360.3%
- 12SUDHAKARAN HIndependent · IND3830.2%
- 13ELAYARAJA RIndependent · IND2130.1%
- 14SRINIVASAN EIndependent · IND1810.1%
- 15SATHISH RAJA MIndependent · IND1020.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −9.4%
- AIADMK share
- 57.5% → 48.6%
- DMK share
- 38.3% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- 80.4% → 78.9%