Constituency
214. Thoothukkudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-THOOTHUKKUDI
DMK 46.5%won by 11.0%AIADMK 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 11.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.1% to 46.5% of the vote here (+6.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 96.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.4% to 69.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,73,187
Turnout
69.4%
Valid votes
1,89,488
Margin
20,908
11.03%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1GEETHA JEEVAN PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK88,04546.5%
- 2CHELLAPANDIAN.S.T.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK67,13735.4%
- 3FATIMAMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK17,7989.4%
- 4KANAGARAJ.M.R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,2503.3%
- 5MARIA JUDY HEMA.P.NTK · NTK3,7332.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1771.7%
- 7CHINNADURAI.M.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,0690.6%
- 8ESAKKI RAJA.K.All India Forward Bloc · AIFB8060.4%
- 9SIVALINGA RAJA.V.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP4390.2%
- 10ANTONY MYKEL HEMILDONTSC · TSC3700.2%
- 11ANUSUYA.M.Independent · IND1900.1%
- 12LAKSHMI NARAYANAN.L.K.Shiv Sena · SHS1800.1%
- 13MOORTHY.C.Independent · IND1730.1%
- 14ALWARSAMY KARTHIKEYAN.L.Independent · IND1210.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +27.7%
- DMK share
- 40.1% → 46.5%
- AIADMK share
- 56.8% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 73.7% → 69.4%