Constituency
99. Erode (West)
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-ERODE-WEST
AIADMK 43.5%won by 2.6%DMK 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.7% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 40.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.4% to 73.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,56,208
Turnout
73.9%
Valid votes
1,89,367
Margin
4,906
2.59%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAMALINGAM K.V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK82,29743.5%
- 2MUTHUSAMY SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK77,39140.9%
- 3EASWARA MURTHY MKMDK · KMDK7,4773.9%
- 4MURUGAN NMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,6243.5%
- 5PALANISAMY N.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1772.2%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4031.8%
- 7ARUMUGAM P VPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,0001.6%
- 8JOTHIVEL TNTK · NTK2,4481.3%
- 9ARAVINDAN PIndependent · IND6440.3%
- 10VEERAPPAN CBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4730.2%
- 11MUTHUSAMY AIndependent · IND3710.2%
- 12PALANISAMY MIndependent · IND2720.1%
- 13PERIYASAMY A PGMI · GMI2410.1%
- 14VELUSAMY PIDMMK · IDMMK2360.1%
- 15VENGATESAN AIndependent · IND2270.1%
- 16THAMOTHARAN VUCPI · UCPI860.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −56.7%
- AIADMK share
- 59.3% → 43.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- 79.3% → 73.9%