Constituency
193. Madurai Central
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-MADURAI-CENTRAL
DMK 42.5%won by 3.8%AIADMK 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 3.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 39.2% to 42.5% of the vote here (+3.3%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 38.8% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.6% to 65.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,33,084
Turnout
65.2%
Valid votes
1,51,982
Margin
5,762
3.79%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1PALANIVEL THIAGARAJANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,66242.5%
- 2JEYABAL MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK58,90038.8%
- 3SIVAMUTHUKUMAR DDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK11,2357.4%
- 4KARTHIK PRABU MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,9264.6%
- 5VETRIKUMARAN CNTK · NTK2,9982.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,6831.8%
- 7JAFAR SULTHAN IBRAHIM MSDPI · SDPI1,6861.1%
- 8SELVAM TPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,0070.7%
- 9SUDHAKAR RAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB4710.3%
- 10BALASUBRAMANIAN RIndependent · IND2530.2%
- 11THAVAMANI ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2030.1%
- 12VEL SIndependent · IND1610.1%
- 13MUTHURAJA K.MIndependent · IND1560.1%
- 14SHAHUL HAMEED AIndependent · IND1350.1%
- 15KARMEGAM MIndependent · IND1060.1%
- 16SATHIYENDRAN NIndependent · IND970.1%
- 17SOUNDARAM G TLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP950.1%
- 18RAJKUMAR SIndependent · IND880.1%
- 19NAVANEETHAKRISHNAN RIndependent · IND740.0%
- 20AVADAINATHAN VIndependent · IND460.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMDK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −35.4%
- DMK share
- 39.2% → 42.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- 74.8% → 65.2%