Constituency
156. Kurinjipadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KURINJIPADI
DMK 44.0%won by 14.9%AIADMK 29.1%
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 14.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.1% between them, down from 97.5% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,23,575
Turnout
84.2%
Valid votes
1,88,205
Margin
28,108
14.93%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1PANNEERSELVAM MRKDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK82,86444.0%
- 2RAJENDRAN RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK54,75629.1%
- 3MUTHUKRISHNAN SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK22,70512.1%
- 4BALAMURUGAN KMSDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK21,06311.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5410.8%
- 6JALADEEPAN VNTK · NTK1,5340.8%
- 7SHAKTHI GANAPATHY MUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9570.5%
- 8TATABIRLA AIndependent · IND8550.5%
- 9MUTHUKUMARAN APIndependent · IND6360.3%
- 10MURUGAN RIndependent · IND3420.2%
- 11SENTHILMURUGAN SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2880.2%
- 12RAJASEKAR AIndependent · IND2110.1%
- 13GOVINDARAJ PIndependent · IND1970.1%
- 14ASHOKKUMAR SIndependent · IND1530.1%
- 15GIRIJA SIndependent · IND1030.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +30.2%
- DMK share
- 41.2% → 44.0%
- AIADMK share
- 56.4% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- 86.1% → 84.2%