Constituency
366. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-CHIDAMBARAM
INC 48.8%won by 21.8%DMK 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 21.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.7% of the vote between them, up from 57.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 67.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,33,507
Turnout
67.2%
Valid votes
6,27,676
Margin
1,36,890
21.81%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VALLALPERUMAN P.Indian National Congress · INC3,06,12148.8%
- 2SULOCHANA AYYASAMY (W)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,69,23127.0%
- 3ELUMALAI R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,44,94623.1%
- 4SIVA M.P.TMM · TMM2,6870.4%
- 5SAMIDURAI D.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9700.3%
- 6CHINDAMBARAM S.Independent · IND1,7150.3%
- 7ANBU DURAISAMY R.N.Independent · IND1,0060.2%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +17.5%
- INC share
- 31.0% → 48.8%
- DMK share
- 26.7% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- 70.6% → 67.2%