Constituency
37. Kancheepuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-KANCHEEPURAM
DMK 44.8%won by 5.1%PMK 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 5.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 73.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,13,089
Turnout
73.3%
Valid votes
2,29,432
Margin
11,595
5.05%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1C.V.M.P. EzhailzrasanDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,02,71244.8%
- 2P. Magesh KumarPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK91,11739.7%
- 3S. SALDINNTK · NTK13,9466.1%
- 4B. GOPINATHMNM · MNM12,0285.2%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,5391.1%
- 6N. MANOGARANAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK2,3011.0%
- 7L. ARULNATHANIndependent · IND2,0500.9%
- 8K. PrabakaranBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1930.5%
- 9D.GNANAMOORTHYIndependent · IND4150.2%
- 10M. MEGANATHANNGPP · NGPP2480.1%
- 11J. JAYARAJIndependent · IND1930.1%
- 12S. SRINIVASANIndependent · IND1620.1%
- 13T. MAGESHIndependent · IND1570.1%
- 14R. VINOTHRAJIndependent · IND1330.1%
- 15P. EZHILARASANIndependent · IND1270.1%
- 16M.ELANGOVANIndependent · IND1110.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–PMK swing
- −21.9%
- DMK share
- 40.4% → 44.8%
- PMK share
- 13.4% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- 75.5% → 73.3%