Constituency
83. Yercaud
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-YERCAUD
AIADMK 45.2%won by 7.8%DMK 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.9% to 7.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.6% 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
2,60,157
Turnout
85.5%
Valid votes
2,22,566
Margin
17,394
7.82%
Candidates
14 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHITRA.GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,00,56245.2%
- 2TAMILSELVAN.CDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK83,16837.4%
- 3SELVAM.RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK17,9988.1%
- 4KUMAR.CDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK10,4554.7%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1361.4%
- 6PON RASABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,2251.0%
- 7SENGOTTUVEL.TNTK · NTK1,2650.6%
- 8CHITRA.RIndependent · IND1,0630.5%
- 9PRABHAVATHY.LKMDK · KMDK9580.4%
- 10SAGADEVAN.VIndependent · IND7710.3%
- 11SAKTHIVEL.KIndependent · IND4010.2%
- 12KASI.KIndependent · IND2430.1%
- 13ARIVUKKANNU.CIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 14KANNAN.AIndependent · IND1570.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −13.1%
- AIADMK share
- 58.1% → 45.2%
- DMK share
- 37.1% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 85.4% → 85.5%