Constituency
158. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
AIADMK 34.3%won by 0.9%DMK 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 0.9%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 34.3% of the vote here (+34.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 94.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 74.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,29,162
Turnout
74.5%
Valid votes
1,70,619
Margin
1,506
0.88%
Candidates
14 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PANDIAN K AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK58,54334.3%
- 2SENTHILKUMAR K RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK57,03733.4%
- 3ARUL RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK24,22614.2%
- 4BALAKRISHNAN KCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,31413.7%
- 5ABDUL SATTHAR GSDPI · SDPI1,7751.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,7141.0%
- 7SATHISHKUMAR B (A) BAAKYAANTK · NTK1,2950.8%
- 8MANIMARAN GBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0790.6%
- 9VINOBA CIndependent · IND4400.3%
- 10DHIVAKAR SIndependent · IND3880.2%
- 11SENTHILKUMAR RIndependent · IND3020.2%
- 12THIRUNAVUKKARASU NIndependent · IND2610.2%
- 13KARVANNAN KIndependent · IND1520.1%
- 14THANGAPANDIYAN RIndependent · IND930.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +47.3%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- DMK share
- 46.4% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → 74.5%