Constituency
152. Vriddhachalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-VRIDDHACHALAM
AIADMK 39.2%won by 7.4%DMK 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 7.4%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 39.2% of the vote here (+39.2%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.0% between them, down from 83.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,31,740
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
1,85,125
Margin
13,777
7.44%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KALAISELVAN V TAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK72,61139.2%
- 2GOVINDASAMY PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK58,83431.8%
- 3TAMIZHARASI P DRPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK29,34015.8%
- 4MUTHUKUMAR VDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK18,56310.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2551.2%
- 6SIVARAJ SNTK · NTK8440.5%
- 7RAJENDRAN KIndependent · IND6100.3%
- 8SELLADURAI CIJK · IJK5090.3%
- 9PALANIVEL SIndependent · IND4000.2%
- 10BHARATHI DVTIP · VTIP2940.2%
- 11SENTHIL PIndependent · IND2850.2%
- 12REGO AMBROSE ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2480.1%
- 13THIRUNAVUKKARASU RIndependent · IND1500.1%
- 14CHAKKARAVARTHI P RTSC · TSC940.1%
- 15SRINUVASAN RIndependent · IND880.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMDK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +7.4%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 39.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- 80.8% → 79.9%