Constituency
26. Velachery
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-VELACHERY
DMK 40.0%won by 5.1%AIADMK 34.9%
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 5.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 40.0% of the vote here (+40.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.9% between them, down from 87.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.7% to 58.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,00,891
Turnout
58.3%
Valid votes
1,75,522
Margin
8,872
5.05%
Candidates
26 contested · winner DMK- 1VAGAI CHANDERASEKARDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK70,13940.0%
- 2C MUNUSAMYAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK61,26734.9%
- 3P SRITHARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,4728.2%
- 4V N RAJANDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK9,6545.5%
- 5VINOBA BHOOPATHYPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6,8093.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,2252.4%
- 7N CHANDRASEKARANNTK · NTK4,0112.3%
- 8RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHY @ KITTYIndependent · IND2,4771.4%
- 9SUDARSAN RAJANIndependent · IND5070.3%
- 10S SUNDARAJANIndependent · IND2740.2%
- 11SELVAKUMARGAPP · GAPP2350.1%
- 12P RAVIKUMARIndependent · IND2250.1%
- 13C SUNDARAMIndependent · IND2170.1%
- 14R UMASHANKARIndependent · IND1610.1%
- 15R JEYASEELANIndependent · IND1470.1%
- 16A CHANDERANMMKA · MMKA940.1%
- 17S JEYARAJIndependent · IND900.1%
- 18K ESWARANIndependent · IND840.0%
- 19R SAMINATHANIndependent · IND830.0%
- 20PONNUDURAI ATDITHANIndependent · IND670.0%
- 21B PIRABUIndependent · IND570.0%
- 22M SURESH KUMARIndependent · IND530.0%
- 23P ELUMALAIIndependent · IND480.0%
- 24M SHANTHA KUMARIndependent · IND470.0%
- 25R GUNASEKERANIndependent · IND440.0%
- 26R KUMARIndependent · IND350.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +59.0%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 40.0%
- AIADMK share
- 53.9% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 67.0% → 58.3%