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386. Cuddalore

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Tamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996

IN-CUDDALORE

TMCM 56.2%won by 29.6%INC 26.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 29.6%.

  • TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 56.2% of the vote here (+56.2%).
  • Safe seatTMCM won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
10,42,486
Turnout
66.5%
Valid votes
6,93,384
Margin
2,05,204
29.59%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
TMCMflipped
TMCMINC swing
+88.0%
TMCM share
0.0% 56.2%
INC share
58.4% 26.6%
Turnout
64.7% 66.5%