Constituency
58. Pennagaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PENNAGARAM
DMK 38.5%won by 9.2%PMK 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 9.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 42.2% to 38.5% of the vote here (−3.7%).
- New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 29.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 88.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,26,746
Turnout
88.0%
Valid votes
1,99,635
Margin
18,446
9.24%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1INBASEKARAN. P.N.P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK76,84838.5%
- 2ANBUMANI RAMADOSSPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK58,40229.3%
- 3MUNUSAMY K.PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK51,68725.9%
- 4NANJAPPAN. N.Communist Party of India · CPI5,6242.8%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0811.0%
- 6MUNIAPPAN. AIndependent · IND7160.4%
- 7SIVAKUMAR. GNTK · NTK6880.3%
- 8MURUGESAN. MIndependent · IND6880.3%
- 9POTHURASU. NIndependent · IND6400.3%
- 10DHANAPAL. GIndependent · IND5550.3%
- 11MALLIGA. MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4730.2%
- 12VENKATESAN. P. CIndependent · IND3360.2%
- 13AGNI SRIRAMACHANDRANIndependent · IND3000.2%
- 14SIVALINGAM. PIndependent · IND2220.1%
- 15JAIKUMAR. KJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1930.1%
- 16SINGARAVELU. KIndependent · IND1820.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–PMK swing
- −33.0%
- DMK share
- 42.2% → 38.5%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- 83.0% → 88.0%