Constituency
86. Edapadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-EDAPADI
AIADMK 43.7%won by 18.6%PMK 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 18.7% to 18.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.9% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,61,304
Turnout
86.3%
Valid votes
2,25,644
Margin
42,022
18.62%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PALANISWAMI. KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK98,70343.7%
- 2ANNADURAI. NPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK56,68125.1%
- 3MURUGESAN. P.A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK55,14924.4%
- 4THANGAVEL. PCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,4372.4%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9130.8%
- 6PALANISAMY. KNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,7890.8%
- 7RAMESH. KNTK · NTK9710.4%
- 8SRINIVASAN. NKMDK · KMDK9590.4%
- 9MUNIRAJA. EIndependent · IND8690.4%
- 10KUMARESAN. MIndependent · IND7410.3%
- 11SEDHUPATHI. AIndependent · IND4870.2%
- 12SAKTHIVEL. SIndependent · IND4600.2%
- 13ESWARAMOORTHI. NIndependent · IND4320.2%
- 14VENKATESAN. MIJK · IJK3630.2%
- 15KUPPAYEE. RIndependent · IND3600.2%
- 16THIRUMOORTHY. KJanata Dal (United) · JDU3300.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–PMK swing
- −0.1%
- AIADMK share
- 56.4% → 43.7%
- PMK share
- 37.7% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- 85.5% → 86.3%