Constituency
184. Karaikudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KARAIKUDI
INC 46.4%won by 9.1%AIADMK 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.8% to 46.4% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 90.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 70.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,86,435
Turnout
70.3%
Valid votes
2,01,355
Margin
18,283
9.08%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1RAMASAMY KRIndian National Congress · INC93,41946.4%
- 2KARPAGAM ILANGOAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK75,13637.3%
- 3SEVANTHIAPPAN SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK14,2797.1%
- 4PARIMALAM SNTK · NTK5,3442.7%
- 5MUTHULAKSHMI VBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,9692.5%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,6881.3%
- 7SARAVANAN KBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6010.8%
- 8DURAIPANDI PRPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK8970.4%
- 9RAJKUMAR RNaadaalum Makkal Katchi · NMK7230.4%
- 10RABIQ RAJA KIndependent · IND5470.3%
- 11TAMILKARTHICKIndependent · IND4710.2%
- 12ALAGAPPAN SPIndependent · IND3150.2%
- 13NAGANATHAN AIndependent · IND2640.1%
- 14ESWARANIndependent · IND2620.1%
- 15ARULANAND AGMI · GMI2570.1%
- 16SETHU MMMKA · MMKA1830.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AIADMK swing
- +20.3%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 46.4%
- AIADMK share
- 51.0% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 74.4% → 70.3%