Constituency
78. Rishivandiam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-RISHIVANDIAM
DMK 53.0%won by 19.4%AIADMK 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 19.4%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,68,278
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
2,15,106
Margin
41,728
19.40%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1KARTHIKEYAN KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,13,91253.0%
- 2SANTHOSH S AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK72,18433.6%
- 3SURESH MANIVANNAN RNTK · NTK12,0665.6%
- 4PRABHU SAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK10,3874.8%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4201.1%
- 6MURUGAN KIndependent · IND1,5080.7%
- 7SHANMUGASUNDARAM KMNM · MNM6400.3%
- 8VEERAN SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4260.2%
- 9SANTHOSH MIndependent · IND3080.1%
- 10CHANDRASEKARAN VIndependent · IND2870.1%
- 11GURU KIndependent · IND2680.1%
- 12TAMILVANAN MMIP · MIP1510.1%
- 13VENKATRAMAN JNaadaalum Makkal Katchi · NMK1490.1%
- 14NARAYANAN AAMDMK · AMDMK1420.1%
- 15RADHAKRISHNAN KMMP · MMP1290.1%
- 16KARTHIK GIndependent · IND1290.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +9.0%
- DMK share
- 47.1% → 53.0%
- AIADMK share
- 36.7% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- 80.5% → 80.2%