Constituency
20. Thousand Lights
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-THOUSAND-LIGHTS
DMK 43.3%won by 6.2%AIADMK 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 6.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.4% to 60.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,35,724
Turnout
60.4%
Valid votes
1,42,403
Margin
8,829
6.20%
Candidates
23 contested · winner DMK- 1SELVAM KU. KADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK61,72643.3%
- 2VALARMATHI BAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK52,89737.1%
- 3SHIVALINGAM MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,5166.0%
- 4AMBIGAPATHY CMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK7,8055.5%
- 5RANGAN VPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,9682.8%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,6332.6%
- 7MURUGESANNTK · NTK2,0751.5%
- 8ELANGO MYSP · YSP5060.4%
- 9JAFFER SADIK JIndependent · IND1840.1%
- 10DHANANJAYAN T SIndependent · IND1740.1%
- 11MOGAN KUMAR S PIndependent · IND1430.1%
- 12MURUGAN SIndependent · IND1410.1%
- 13SELVAM RIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 14ARUNTHATHI RAMACHANDRANIndependent · IND930.1%
- 15SELVAM PIndependent · IND680.0%
- 16MANIKANDAN AIndependent · IND610.0%
- 17KUMAR KIndependent · IND560.0%
- 18RAMESH AIndependent · IND500.0%
- 19SANTHAKUMAR KIndependent · IND400.0%
- 20SELVAM TIndependent · IND390.0%
- 21IYYANAR CIndependent · IND380.0%
- 22GOKULAKRISHNAN EIndependent · IND350.0%
- 23KARTHIK DIndependent · IND340.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +11.9%
- DMK share
- 44.9% → 43.3%
- AIADMK share
- 50.6% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- 66.8% → 60.4%