Constituency
158. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
AIADMK 50.2%won by 9.2%IUML 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 9.2%.
- New challengerIndian Union Muslim League (IUML) finished second with 40.9% — it did not contest here in 2016.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.1% of the vote between them, up from 67.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 71.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,54,903
Turnout
71.9%
Valid votes
1,83,352
Margin
16,937
9.24%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AIADMK- 1K.A. PANDIANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK91,96150.2%
- 2S. ABDUL RAHMANIndian Union Muslim League · IUML75,02440.9%
- 3NATARAJAN KRISHNAMOORTHYNTK · NTK9,0714.9%
- 4G. DEVASAGAYAMMNM · MNM2,9531.6%
- 5M. NANTHINIDEVIAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK1,3880.8%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,2020.7%
- 7D. CHANDRA PRABUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4780.3%
- 8S. BALAMURUGANIndependent · IND3370.2%
- 9K. UDAYA SELVANAMPK · AMPK3050.2%
- 10C. VINOBAIndependent · IND2450.1%
- 11B. NARAYANAMOORTHYIndependent · IND2420.1%
- 12M. RAGHUNATHANIMK · IMK1460.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–IUML swing
- −25.1%
- AIADMK share
- 34.3% → 50.2%
- IUML share
- 0.0% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- 74.5% → 71.9%