Constituency
111. Mettupalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-METTUPALAYAM
AIADMK 44.4%won by 7.6%DMK 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.0% to 7.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 94.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.6% to 75.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,79,110
Turnout
75.5%
Valid votes
2,10,761
Margin
16,114
7.65%
Candidates
18 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHINNARAJ.O.KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK93,59544.4%
- 2SURENDRAN. S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK77,48136.8%
- 3SHANMUGA SUNDARAM.T.RTMCM · TMCM13,3246.3%
- 4JAGANATHAN. P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,0365.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4081.6%
- 6MOHAMMED RAFI. SSDPI · SDPI2,2091.0%
- 7MOORTHI. KPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,8700.9%
- 8VELLINGIRI. KKMDK · KMDK1,6040.8%
- 9ABDUL VAHAB. ANTK · NTK1,5090.7%
- 10VENKATESH. KIndependent · IND1,2640.6%
- 11POONGUNDRAN M.KIndependent · IND1,1450.5%
- 12NATARAJAN.PCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6220.3%
- 13BHASKARAN. K.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP5630.3%
- 14BALADHANDAYUTHAM.RIndependent · IND4060.2%
- 15SHANMUGASUNDRAM. P.SIndependent · IND2480.1%
- 16DHARMARAJ. MIndependent · IND2080.1%
- 17ARUMUGAM. PIndependent · IND1530.1%
- 18GANESHKUMAR. EIndependent · IND1160.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −7.4%
- AIADMK share
- 54.5% → 44.4%
- DMK share
- 39.5% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- 81.1% → 75.5%