Constituency
186. Sivaganga
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-SIVAGANGA
AIADMK 43.1%won by 3.5%DMK 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 3.5%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 43.1% of the vote here (+43.1%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 39.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 69.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,73,251
Turnout
69.3%
Valid votes
1,89,342
Margin
6,636
3.50%
Candidates
17 contested · winner AIADMK- 1BASKARAN.GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK81,69743.1%
- 2SATHIANATHAN.M @ MEPPAL M.SAKTHIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK75,06139.6%
- 3GUNASEKARAN.SCommunist Party of India · CPI15,1148.0%
- 4SRITHAR VANDAIYAR. G. M.AIFBS · AIFBS5,2142.8%
- 5KOTTAIKUMAR. RAMANTK · NTK3,1181.6%
- 6VELLAIKKANNU.TETMK · ETMK1,8091.0%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5300.8%
- 8RAJASEKARAN.NPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,2840.7%
- 9KALEESWARAN.MGOKMK · GOKMK9810.5%
- 10KULANDAISAMY.CIJK · IJK8490.4%
- 11SURESH KUMAR. BIndependent · IND7020.4%
- 12MURUGAN. PIndependent · IND5960.3%
- 13BALAKRISHNAN. PIndependent · IND5220.3%
- 14ANDIAPPAN. LIndependent · IND2620.1%
- 15SARAVANA RAMAKRISHNAN. MTAVK · TAVK2430.1%
- 16ANU JEYANTHI.FIndependent · IND2110.1%
- 17SELVARAJ.VMMKA · MMKA1490.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +3.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- 73.5% → 69.3%