Constituency
102. Kangayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KANGAYAM
AIADMK 45.2%won by 7.1%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.4% to 7.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.2% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 78.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,33,793
Turnout
78.9%
Valid votes
1,84,428
Margin
13,135
7.12%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1THANIYARASU UAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK83,32545.2%
- 2GOPI PIndian National Congress · INC70,19038.1%
- 3MUTHUVENKATESHWARAN K GDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK12,1086.6%
- 4USHADEVI MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1613.9%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1411.7%
- 6SHANMUGAM V PNTK · NTK2,8711.6%
- 7AMIRTAVALLI VPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,5440.8%
- 8THANGAVEL GBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1360.6%
- 9RAJENDRAN BIndependent · IND7590.4%
- 10POOVATHALIDMMK · IDMMK5190.3%
- 11KAVINRAJA SIndependent · IND3690.2%
- 12RAJANDRAN PIndependent · IND3440.2%
- 13SENTHILKUMAR S RIndependent · IND3340.2%
- 14SUKUMARAN NIndependent · IND2580.1%
- 15ISREAL RIndependent · IND1880.1%
- 16SADHASIVAM KIndependent · IND1810.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −19.3%
- AIADMK share
- 60.6% → 45.2%
- INC share
- 34.3% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 81.8% → 78.9%