Constituency
6. Avadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-AVADI
AIADMK 39.9%won by 0.5%DMK 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.7% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 39.4% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.3% between them, down from 88.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 67.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,98,613
Turnout
67.9%
Valid votes
2,70,732
Margin
1,395
0.52%
Candidates
22 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PANDIA RAJAN KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,08,06439.9%
- 2NASAR S MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,06,66939.4%
- 3ANTHRIDOSS RMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK22,8488.4%
- 4ANANDAKRISHNAN NPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK12,4284.6%
- 5LOGANATHAN JBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,2322.7%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,9941.8%
- 7NALLATHAMBI SNTK · NTK4,3011.6%
- 8CHARLES SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4770.5%
- 9NAZAR S M AIndependent · IND4520.2%
- 10DINESH KUMAR PIndependent · IND4020.1%
- 11PANDIARAJAN GIndependent · IND3860.1%
- 12DHARANI KIndependent · IND1930.1%
- 13SELVANAYAGAM DIndependent · IND1880.1%
- 14ANTHARAIYANIndependent · IND1730.1%
- 15DURGA PRASAD GIndependent · IND1480.1%
- 16PONNUSAMY RVBMP · VBMP1380.1%
- 17KARTHIKEYAN V PIndependent · IND1360.1%
- 18JANOVA JIndependent · IND1150.0%
- 19KALIAMMAL RAJENDRANIndependent · IND1100.0%
- 20SATHYA DIndependent · IND1030.0%
- 21RAMACHANDRAN JIndependent · IND890.0%
- 22ROWOTH PASARISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP860.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −54.7%
- AIADMK share
- 55.2% → 39.9%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- 71.8% → 67.9%