Constituency
42. Arcot
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-ARCOT
DMK 41.4%won by 5.5%AIADMK 35.9%
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 5.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 41.4% of the vote here (+41.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,46,835
Turnout
82.4%
Valid votes
2,03,392
Margin
11,091
5.45%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1ESWARAPPAN J LDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK84,18241.4%
- 2RAMADOSS.K.VAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK73,09135.9%
- 3G.KARIKALANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK35,04317.2%
- 4UDHAYAKUMAR P NMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,3872.6%
- 5ARULRAMAN.DBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6481.3%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0041.0%
- 7MURUGANAMTHAM.KIndependent · IND4060.2%
- 8SAKUTHALA.AIndependent · IND3590.2%
- 9MUNUSAMY.CLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2720.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +58.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 41.4%
- AIADMK share
- 53.1% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- 83.2% → 82.4%