Constituency
194. Madurai West
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-MADURAI-WEST
AIADMK 44.8%won by 8.9%DMK 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.4% to 8.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.6% to 65.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,80,863
Turnout
65.6%
Valid votes
1,84,180
Margin
16,398
8.90%
Candidates
21 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAJU KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK82,52944.8%
- 2THALAPATHI GDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK66,13135.9%
- 3VASUKI UCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,99110.9%
- 4SASIKUMAR ABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,7053.1%
- 5THIRUNAVUKKARASU VNTK · NTK3,4541.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,7591.5%
- 7KRISHNAKUMAR RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK9270.5%
- 8VENKATESAN MIndependent · IND3600.2%
- 9MUTHUPANDIAN SIndependent · IND3320.2%
- 10MEENAKSHI V CSMK · SMK3100.2%
- 11ESWARAN SGMI · GMI2770.2%
- 12PANDI AShiv Sena · SHS2390.1%
- 13KANNAN MIndependent · IND2150.1%
- 14MANIKANDAN NAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB2050.1%
- 15SASIKUMAR RIndependent · IND1730.1%
- 16KANNABOOPATHI SIndependent · IND1730.1%
- 17THIRUPATHI AIndependent · IND1000.1%
- 18GANESH MOORTHY MIndependent · IND890.0%
- 19MURUGAN SMMKA · MMKA810.0%
- 20JEGA VEERAN SIndependent · IND780.0%
- 21ARIVUDAINAMBI SIndependent · IND520.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −15.5%
- AIADMK share
- 59.6% → 44.8%
- DMK share
- 35.3% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- 74.1% → 65.6%