Constituency
209. Paramakudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-PARAMAKUDI
AIADMK 46.9%won by 6.7%DMK 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.2% to 6.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 40.2% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 92.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 68.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,45,978
Turnout
68.7%
Valid votes
1,69,009
Margin
11,389
6.74%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1MUTHIAH.S.DRAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK79,25446.9%
- 2THISAIVEERAN.UDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,86540.2%
- 3BALAGANAPATHY.V.PONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,5375.6%
- 4IRULAN.MViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK3,7802.2%
- 5HEMALATHA.VNTK · NTK2,6551.6%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5980.9%
- 7THANGARAJ.RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6900.4%
- 8BASKARAN.AIndependent · IND6180.4%
- 9RAJA.K.PIndependent · IND6120.4%
- 10KANNATHASAN.RIndependent · IND5760.3%
- 11GOVINDAN.VBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5720.3%
- 12MAHESWARAN.KIndependent · IND4590.3%
- 13RAJAMOORTHI.MIndependent · IND2280.1%
- 14PALPANDI.CIndependent · IND2230.1%
- 15RAVISHANKAR.VTMMK · TMMK2060.1%
- 16RAJA.MIndependent · IND1360.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −51.1%
- AIADMK share
- 57.9% → 46.9%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 72.4% → 68.7%