Constituency
172. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PAPANASAM
AIADMK 45.3%won by 13.3%INC 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.2% to 13.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 76.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,40,357
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
1,82,548
Margin
24,365
13.35%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AIADMK- 1DORAIKKANNU RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK82,61445.3%
- 2LOGANATHAN T RIndian National Congress · INC58,24931.9%
- 3JAYAKUMAR S DTMCM · TMCM18,59910.2%
- 4ALAYAMANI GPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK4,9632.7%
- 5HUMAYUN KABIR M INTK · NTK3,8642.1%
- 6MOHAMMED FAROOK ASDPI · SDPI3,0431.7%
- 7CHANDRAKASAN .SIndependent · IND2,8961.6%
- 8NEITHALUR GUNASEKARAN TBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1581.2%
- 9None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9111.0%
- 10JAGADEESH KUMAR .SIndependent · IND1,0270.6%
- 11PALANI RAJAN STMMK · TMMK8850.5%
- 12PALANI SAMY M RBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8260.5%
- 13VEMBU .DIndependent · IND7500.4%
- 14ABRAHAM PURUSOTHAMAN PPPIS · PPIS4920.3%
- 15NATARAJAN .SIndependent · IND2710.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- +2.1%
- AIADMK share
- 53.5% → 45.3%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- 80.8% → 76.0%