Constituency
178. Gandharvakottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-GANDHARVAKOTTAI
CPM 44.2%won by 8.1%AIADMK 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 8.1%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 9.5% to 44.2% of the vote here (+34.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.4% between them, down from 85.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 74.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,11,712
Turnout
74.5%
Valid votes
1,57,620
Margin
12,721
8.07%
Candidates
15 contested · winner CPM- 1M.ChinnaduraiCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,71044.2%
- 2S.JayabharathiAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK56,98936.2%
- 3P.LeninAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK12,8408.1%
- 4M.RamilaNTK · NTK12,6618.0%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,3900.9%
- 6P.AsaithambiCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,2710.8%
- 7KRM.AdhidravidarMNM · MNM8480.5%
- 8V.RethinamIndependent · IND6200.4%
- 9P.KarthikeyanIndependent · IND2890.2%
- 10K. ManimuthuIndependent · IND2320.1%
- 11P.RengasamyIndependent · IND2060.1%
- 12S.MalarvizhiAMAK · AMAK1900.1%
- 13M.ThanarajNaadaalum Makkal Katchi · NMK1330.1%
- 14V.IlaiyarajaIndependent · IND1300.1%
- 15Keerai.A.T.ChinnappaIndependent · IND1110.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AIADMK swing
- +42.4%
- CPM share
- 9.5% → 44.2%
- AIADMK share
- 43.8% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- 78.2% → 74.5%