Constituency
5. Poonamallee
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-POONAMALLEE
AIADMK 43.3%won by 4.9%DMK 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.8% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 38.4% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 76.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,15,718
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
2,39,987
Margin
11,763
4.90%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ELUMALAI T AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,03,95243.3%
- 2PARANTHAMEN IDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK92,18938.4%
- 3PARTHASARATHY CPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK15,8276.6%
- 4KANDAN DMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK15,0516.3%
- 5AMARNATH ABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4561.4%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,2651.4%
- 7PONNARASU ANTK · NTK2,5621.1%
- 8VIJAYABALAJI VBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0660.9%
- 9RAMAMOORTHY MIndependent · IND3910.2%
- 10PRATHAP RShiv Sena · SHS3510.1%
- 11NAGARAJ JIndependent · IND3120.1%
- 12TAMILSELVAN BIndependent · IND1770.1%
- 13ANANTH CIndependent · IND1510.1%
- 14KANDHASAMY BIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 15SANKARALINGAM JIndependent · IND1160.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −49.7%
- AIADMK share
- 54.6% → 43.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- 79.1% → 76.0%