Constituency
164. Kilvelur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KILVELUR
DMK 44.9%won by 7.4%AIADMK 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 7.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 48.4% to 44.9% of the vote here (−3.4%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% between them, down from 97.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,63,415
Turnout
84.4%
Valid votes
1,37,929
Margin
10,170
7.37%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1MATHIVANAN.UDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK61,99944.9%
- 2MEENA.NAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK51,82937.6%
- 3NAGAIMAALI.V.PCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,49912.0%
- 4VANITHA.APattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,6371.9%
- 5PALANIVEL.GNTK · NTK1,5531.1%
- 6KUMAR.SBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1420.8%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0490.8%
- 8JAYAPRAKASH.KBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5110.4%
- 9JAMRAJA.KTMMK · TMMK3810.3%
- 10PRATHEEP.NIndependent · IND3290.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −41.0%
- DMK share
- 48.4% → 44.9%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 85.9% → 84.4%