Constituency
23. Saidapet
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-SAIDAPET
DMK 47.2%won by 9.7%AIADMK 37.5%
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 9.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 44.0% to 47.2% of the vote here (+3.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.8% to 59.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,82,052
Turnout
59.6%
Valid votes
1,68,018
Margin
16,255
9.67%
Candidates
23 contested · winner DMK- 1SUBRAMANIAN.MADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK79,27947.2%
- 2PONNAYAN.CAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK63,02437.5%
- 3KALIDASS.VBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0003.6%
- 4SAHADEVAN.T.R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5,9133.5%
- 5ELUMALAI.SCommunist Party of India · CPI5,2213.1%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,5412.1%
- 7MANOHARAN.MNTK · NTK2,7251.6%
- 8MURUGESAN.SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3300.2%
- 9GOKULARAJAN.CIndependent · IND2510.1%
- 10SUBRAMANI.MIndependent · IND2250.1%
- 11VISHNURAM.MYSP · YSP2070.1%
- 12MOHANA.NIndependent · IND1910.1%
- 13MEENA.PIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 14CHINNADURAI.VIndependent · IND1520.1%
- 15ANAND.VIndependent · IND1400.1%
- 16VISHNURAM.SIndependent · IND1230.1%
- 17THOMAS.CLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP950.1%
- 18SOUNDARJAN.CIndependent · IND940.1%
- 19PARTHIBAN.SIndependent · IND870.1%
- 20SHANKAR.EIndependent · IND850.1%
- 21SUBARAMANI.KIndependent · IND680.0%
- 22KANDASAMY.RIndependent · IND520.0%
- 23RAJASEKAR.TIndependent · IND510.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +17.5%
- DMK share
- 44.0% → 47.2%
- AIADMK share
- 51.8% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 70.4% → 59.6%