Constituency
57. Palacode
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PALACODE
AIADMK 40.3%won by 3.2%DMK 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 3.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 37.2% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,13,136
Turnout
88.6%
Valid votes
1,88,767
Margin
5,983
3.17%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ANBALAGAN. K.P.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK76,14340.3%
- 2MURUGAN. P.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK70,16037.2%
- 3MANNAN. K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK31,61216.7%
- 4KAVERIVARMAN. K.G.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK4,9152.6%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8801.0%
- 6CHANDRASEKARAN. G.YSP · YSP5360.3%
- 7VENKATESAN. S.NTK · NTK5030.3%
- 8NANJAPPAN. P.IJK · IJK4630.2%
- 9GOVINDARAJAN. S.Independent · IND4300.2%
- 10SIVAKUMAR. S.Tamilar Makkal Katchi · TMK3970.2%
- 11PERUMAL. P.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP3370.2%
- 12KRISHNAMOORTHY. P.Independent · IND3340.2%
- 13MURUGAN. K.G.Independent · IND3250.2%
- 14PACHIYAPPAN. M.Independent · IND3020.2%
- 15SIVAKUMAR. T.KMDK · KMDK2570.1%
- 16ANBALAGAN. E.Independent · IND1730.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −57.5%
- AIADMK share
- 60.7% → 40.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 86.7% → 88.6%