Constituency
127. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PALANI
DMK 50.7%won by 13.0%AIADMK 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 13.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 47.3% to 50.7% of the vote here (+3.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 76.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,57,151
Turnout
76.8%
Valid votes
1,97,474
Margin
25,586
12.96%
Candidates
24 contested · winner DMK- 1SENTHILKUMAR I PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,00,04550.7%
- 2KUMARASAMY PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK74,45937.7%
- 3RAJAMANICKAM VCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,6874.9%
- 4KANAGARAJ NBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,0922.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,4600.7%
- 6KYZER ASDPI · SDPI1,3700.7%
- 7VINOTH RAJASEKARAN GNTK · NTK8760.4%
- 8SIVAKUMAR TIndependent · IND5940.3%
- 9NAGENDRAN PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5870.3%
- 10MADURAI VEERAN K AIndependent · IND5800.3%
- 11MAHESWARAN PIndependent · IND5720.3%
- 12NAGARAJAN BPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK4900.2%
- 13CHINNARAJ AIndependent · IND4450.2%
- 14MOHAMED JABBAR MIndependent · IND3480.2%
- 15SICKANDER KIndependent · IND3450.2%
- 16SIRAJDEEN NIndependent · IND3430.2%
- 17KRISHNAMOORTHI RKMDK · KMDK2240.1%
- 18KUMARESAN SIndependent · IND1920.1%
- 19SUNDARAM CIndependent · IND1840.1%
- 20MANOHARAN KIndependent · IND1520.1%
- 21RAVI PAUL GICF · ICF1240.1%
- 22THANGAPANDIYAN RIndependent · IND1070.1%
- 23KAJA AIndependent · IND1030.1%
- 24MUTHU KARUPPANAN MIndependent · IND950.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +14.0%
- DMK share
- 47.3% → 50.7%
- AIADMK share
- 48.3% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- 81.0% → 76.8%