Constituency
117. Kavundampalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KAVUNDAMPALAYAM
AIADMK 40.7%won by 2.9%DMK 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.9% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.5% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.2% to 66.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,10,090
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
2,72,400
Margin
8,025
2.95%
Candidates
22 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ARUKUTTY V.C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,10,87040.7%
- 2PAYYA GOUNDER @ KRISHNAN R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,02,84537.8%
- 3NANDAKUMAR R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,4448.2%
- 4RAMAMURTHY V.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,8746.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5,2741.9%
- 6KOUSALYA P.NTK · NTK3,7351.4%
- 7THANGAVELU A.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,5330.9%
- 8KULANDAIVELU K.S.KMDK · KMDK2,5210.9%
- 9ARUNA D.Independent · IND1,0450.4%
- 10VELMURUGAN M.S.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,0040.4%
- 11MARI V.Independent · IND5760.2%
- 12THIRUMALAIRAJAN S.GMI · GMI4460.2%
- 13KALA M.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP3910.1%
- 14MAHENDRA BHARATHI P.WPOI · WPOI3200.1%
- 15VEERABATHIRAN K.All India Forward Bloc · AIFB3050.1%
- 16KRISHNAN M.Independent · IND1970.1%
- 17BALAKUMAR R.VBMP · VBMP1910.1%
- 18VELUSWAMY V.Independent · IND1890.1%
- 19RAJESH KUMAR B.Nationalist Congress Party · NCP1820.1%
- 20SHANMUGAM K.UMK · UMK1650.1%
- 21MAHESHWARAN G.PPIS · PPIS1490.1%
- 22SEVAL S.Independent · IND1440.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −29.0%
- AIADMK share
- 63.2% → 40.7%
- DMK share
- 31.3% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- 73.6% → 66.4%