Constituency
109. Gudalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-GUDALUR
DMK 47.4%won by 10.2%AIADMK 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.0% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 37.2% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,80,136
Turnout
72.8%
Valid votes
1,31,095
Margin
13,379
10.21%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1THIRAVIDAMANIM.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK62,12847.4%
- 2KALAISELVAN S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK48,74937.2%
- 3TAMILMANIP.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,0446.9%
- 4PARASURAMANP.M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5484.2%
- 5KARMEGAM S.NTK · NTK2,3471.8%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8251.4%
- 7MURUGESAN @ MURUGESH R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6840.5%
- 8KAMARAJ G.Independent · IND4680.4%
- 9CHENGUTTUVANR.PIndependent · IND3020.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −48.5%
- DMK share
- 58.7% → 47.4%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 71.5% → 72.8%