Constituency
51. Uthangarai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-UTHANGARAI
AIADMK 38.7%won by 1.4%DMK 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.5% to 1.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 37.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.0% between them, down from 92.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,18,671
Turnout
82.6%
Valid votes
1,80,616
Margin
2,613
1.45%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AIADMK- 1N.MANORANJITHAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK69,98038.7%
- 2S.MALATHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,36737.3%
- 3T.N.ANGUTHIPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK23,50013.0%
- 4C.KANIYAMUDHANViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK12,6697.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,7171.0%
- 6S A PANDUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5910.9%
- 7V. THEERTHAGIRIKMDK · KMDK1,2660.7%
- 8VENKATESAN TNTK · NTK7280.4%
- 9THEERTHAGIRI AIndependent · IND5780.3%
- 10K.BALAMUTHUIndependent · IND5470.3%
- 11C.HAMSANationalist Congress Party · NCP4810.3%
- 12THEERTHAGIRI ARPIA · RPIA1920.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −57.5%
- AIADMK share
- 58.9% → 38.7%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 82.1% → 82.6%