Constituency
69. Vandavasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-VANDAVASI
DMK 44.2%won by 10.0%AIADMK 34.2%
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 10.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 96.5% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,22,453
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
1,81,476
Margin
18,068
9.96%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1AMBETHKUMAR SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK80,20644.2%
- 2MEGANATHAN VAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK62,13834.2%
- 3VADIVELRAVANANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK24,27713.4%
- 4METHARAMESH M.KViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK7,7454.3%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4211.3%
- 6SUDHA JIJK · IJK1,0790.6%
- 7PONNAN TBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8620.5%
- 8RAVI CIndependent · IND7430.4%
- 9NEELAKANDAN CNTK · NTK6850.4%
- 10MEGANATHAN MIndependent · IND6070.3%
- 11JEGAN SIndependent · IND3190.2%
- 12PARTHASARATHY JIndependent · IND2140.1%
- 13RAMAMOORTHY MSamajwadi Party · SP1800.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +17.5%
- DMK share
- 44.5% → 44.2%
- AIADMK share
- 52.1% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- 81.6% → 81.6%