Constituency
178. Gandharvakottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-GANDHARVAKOTTAI
AIADMK 43.8%won by 2.1%DMK 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.1% to 2.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.6% between them, down from 93.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,86,922
Turnout
78.2%
Valid votes
1,46,090
Margin
3,047
2.09%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ARUMUGAM.BAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK64,04343.8%
- 2ANBARASAN.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK60,99641.8%
- 3M.CHINNADURAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,9189.5%
- 4PURATCHIKAVIDHASAN @ PALANIYAPPAN.MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6001.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5561.1%
- 6C.MOHANRAJNTK · NTK1,4321.0%
- 7CHANDRASEKARAN.CIndependent · IND5580.4%
- 8PALANIMANICKAM.MPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5300.4%
- 9VEERAMUTHU.BIndependent · IND5140.4%
- 10VANITHA.RCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4650.3%
- 11THAVAMOORTHY.TBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2840.2%
- 12SATHIYAMOORTHY.NYSP · YSP1940.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −14.0%
- AIADMK share
- 54.9% → 43.8%
- DMK share
- 38.8% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 80.1% → 78.2%