Constituency
168. Thiruvarur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-THIRUVARUR
DMK 61.7%won by 34.7%AIADMK 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 29.0% to 34.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 77.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,53,227
Turnout
77.7%
Valid votes
1,96,795
Margin
68,366
34.74%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1KARUNANIDHI .MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,21,47361.7%
- 2PANNERSELVAM .RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,10727.0%
- 3MASILAMANI .P.SCommunist Party of India · CPI13,1586.7%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,1771.1%
- 5SIVAKUMAR .RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,7870.9%
- 6CHANDRASEKAR .THENDRALNTK · NTK1,4270.7%
- 7RENGADASS .NBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2540.6%
- 8PADMANABAN .MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5910.3%
- 9MEENACHI SUNDARAM .VIndependent · IND4810.2%
- 10SARAVANAN .SIndependent · IND3490.2%
- 11GANASAN .STMMK · TMMK2810.1%
- 12RAJENDRAN .SIndependent · IND2000.1%
- 13PANNERSELVAM .ANRIndependent · IND1980.1%
- 14DEVAKUMAR .DIndependent · IND1480.1%
- 15SUBASH BABU .MAUK · AUK920.0%
- 16SELVARAJ .TIndependent · IND720.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +5.7%
- DMK share
- 63.0% → 61.7%
- AIADMK share
- 33.9% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- 82.6% → 77.7%