Constituency
165. Vedaranyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-VEDARANYAM
AIADMK 49.8%won by 7.8%DMK 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 7.8%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 42.0% — it did not contest here in 2016.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 67.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,96,104
Turnout
80.6%
Valid votes
1,58,060
Margin
12,329
7.80%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AIADMK- 1O.S.MANIANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK78,71949.8%
- 2S.K.VETHARATHINAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK66,39042.0%
- 3K.RAJENDRANNTK · NTK9,1065.8%
- 4P.S.ARUMUGAMAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK1,2840.8%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA6730.4%
- 6R.PANNEERSELVAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4600.3%
- 7MOHAMED ALIMNM · MNM4370.3%
- 8P.V.THEENATHAYALANIndependent · IND3190.2%
- 9V.VEERAKUMARIndependent · IND2970.2%
- 10R.KATHIRVELIndependent · IND1430.1%
- 11Dr.T.SUNDARAVADIVELANShiv Sena · SHS910.1%
- 12T.RAMAJAYAMIndependent · IND760.0%
- 13R.RAMAMURTHYIndependent · IND650.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −33.6%
- AIADMK share
- 41.4% → 49.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- 81.4% → 80.6%