Constituency
213. Vilathikulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-VILATHIKULAM
AIADMK 46.8%won by 12.3%DMK 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 12.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 34.5% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 92.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,05,689
Turnout
74.3%
Valid votes
1,52,795
Margin
18,718
12.25%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AIADMK- 1UMA MAHESWARI KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK71,49646.8%
- 2BEEMARAJ SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK52,77834.5%
- 3KATHIRVEL PTMCM · TMCM15,0309.8%
- 4RAMA MOORTHY PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4414.2%
- 5MARUDHANAYAGAM G NNTK · NTK1,7661.2%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5811.0%
- 7SUBBULAKSHMI IBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8500.6%
- 8MURUGAN AShiv Sena · SHS7040.5%
- 9MUNIYASAMY SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5600.4%
- 10MAHENDRAN SIndependent · IND3890.3%
- 11SHANMUGARAJ CIndependent · IND2460.2%
- 12RATHINASAMY ARPIA · RPIA2450.2%
- 13MAHARAJA RIndependent · IND2380.2%
- 14PATTURAJ AIndependent · IND2370.2%
- 15PON ERULAMUDAIYAN KIndependent · IND2340.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −42.3%
- AIADMK share
- 54.6% → 46.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- 76.0% → 74.3%