Constituency
101. Dharapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-DHARAPURAM
DMK 46.4%won by 0.7%BJP 45.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 0.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 46.4% of the vote here (+46.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 85.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 74.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,61,619
Turnout
74.2%
Valid votes
1,93,991
Margin
1,393
0.72%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1KAYALVIZHI NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK89,98646.4%
- 2MURUGAN LBharatiya Janata Party · BJP88,59345.7%
- 3RANJITHA KNTK · NTK6,7533.5%
- 4CHARLI AMNM · MNM2,1301.1%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9031.0%
- 6KALARANI CAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK1,1720.6%
- 7KAYALVIZHI KIndependent · IND8920.5%
- 8MURUGAN AIndependent · IND8260.4%
- 9RANGASAMY SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6400.3%
- 10SELVARAJ VIndependent · IND2330.1%
- 11MUNIYAPPAN AAPTADM · APTADM2200.1%
- 12KAYALVIZHI PIndependent · IND2020.1%
- 13KARTHIKEYAN AIndependent · IND1580.1%
- 14ANANTHI SIndependent · IND1570.1%
- 15CHIDAMBHARAM VIDMMK · IDMMK1260.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–BJP swing
- +5.0%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 46.4%
- BJP share
- 4.2% → 45.7%
- Turnout
- 76.8% → 74.2%