Constituency
38. Arakonam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-ARAKONAM
AIADMK 41.2%won by 2.5%DMK 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.5% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.9% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 75.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,19,621
Turnout
75.3%
Valid votes
1,65,441
Margin
4,161
2.52%
Candidates
14 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAVI SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK68,17641.2%
- 2RAJKUMAR NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,01538.7%
- 3ARPUDHAM RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK20,13012.2%
- 4GOPINATH GViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK5,2133.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0491.2%
- 6C.VIJAYANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0211.2%
- 7SUDHAKAR PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6411.0%
- 8SARAVANAN MNTK · NTK1,0380.6%
- 9RAJKUMAR BIndependent · IND3730.2%
- 10RAVI VIndependent · IND2780.2%
- 11THANGAVELU PIndependent · IND1460.1%
- 12PANJU. UDAYAKUMARIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 13ELAYAPRABU KPPIS · PPIS1290.1%
- 14MARAN PLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP950.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −53.4%
- AIADMK share
- 55.9% → 41.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- 78.8% → 75.3%