Constituency
192. Madurai South
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-MADURAI-SOUTH
AIADMK 42.8%won by 16.2%DMK 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 16.2%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 42.8% of the vote here (+42.8%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 89.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.0% to 66.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,19,349
Turnout
66.8%
Valid votes
1,46,611
Margin
23,763
16.21%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SARAVANAN .S.S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK62,68342.8%
- 2BALACHANDRAN .MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,92026.5%
- 3BOOMINATHAN. MMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK19,44313.3%
- 4MAHALAKSHMI .A.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,06911.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9182.0%
- 6VIJAYAKUMAR. BNTK · NTK2,5941.8%
- 7NAJIMA BEGUM .SSDP · SDP2,2101.5%
- 8MARI SELVAM. SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK8640.6%
- 9MUJEEB RAHUMAN. AIndependent · IND2670.2%
- 10MAHALAKSHMI .N.KIndependent · IND1940.1%
- 11GANESAN .UUCPI · UCPI1770.1%
- 12MAHALAKSHMI .A.GIndependent · IND1580.1%
- 13ANUSHIYASREE. MIndependent · IND1140.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +16.2%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- 75.8% → 66.8%