Election
Constituency

218. Kovilpatti

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Tamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016

TN-KOVILPATTI

AIADMK 39.0%won by 0.3%DMK 38.7%

What changed here

Derived

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.3% to 0.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 2011.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 5.5% to 66.7%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,48,279
Turnout
66.7%
Valid votes
1,65,607
Margin
428
0.26%

Candidates

13 contested · winner AIADMK
  1. 1C. KADAMBUR RAJUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK64,51439.0%
  2. 2A.SUBRAMANIANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,08638.7%
  3. 3VINAYAKA RAMESHMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK28,51217.2%
  4. 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3501.4%
  5. 5T. MUTHU MARINTK · NTK2,0701.2%
  6. 6G. RAMACHANDIRANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,0750.6%
  7. 7M. RAVIKUMARTMMK · TMMK8260.5%
  8. 8T.S.K. MUTHURAJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7090.4%
  9. 9S.A. SUBBURAJIndependent · IND3880.2%
  10. 10A. VEILUMUTHUPANDIANIndependent · IND3830.2%
  11. 11R. MURUGESANAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB2550.2%
  12. 12S. SEETHARAMANIndependent · IND2280.1%
  13. 13V.G. RADHAKRISHNANAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM2110.1%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
AIADMK
AIADMK–DMK swing
−55.6%
AIADMK share
55.8% → 39.0%
DMK share
0.0% → 38.7%
Turnout
72.2% → 66.7%
217. Ottapidaram219. Sankarankovil
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