Constituency
388. Dharmapuri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-DHARMAPURI
TMCM 42.7%won by 18.8%INC 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 18.8%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 42.7% of the vote here (+42.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 78.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,22,427
Turnout
62.1%
Valid votes
6,96,696
Margin
1,31,246
18.84%
Candidates
18 contested · winner TMCM- 1THEERTHARAMAN.PTMCM · TMCM2,97,16642.7%
- 2SUBRAMANIYAM.M.PIndian National Congress · INC1,65,92023.8%
- 3RAMAMURTHY.KAIICT · AIICT1,63,48423.5%
- 4KRISHNAN.PMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK28,6334.1%
- 5CHINNASAMY.CIndependent · IND12,4951.8%
- 6GOPAL. INAMURASU.AIndependent · IND8,2831.2%
- 7ARUMUGAM P.SBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0600.9%
- 8PADMARAJAN KIndependent · IND2,5530.4%
- 9BALASUBRAMANIAM.MIndependent · IND2,1540.3%
- 10MADAVACHARI.D.NIndependent · IND2,0530.3%
- 11RAVI.NIndependent · IND2,0100.3%
- 12RAJENDRAN, KASPHAIndependent · IND1,4680.2%
- 13MATHIVANAN.VIndependent · IND1,0580.2%
- 14BALAKRISHNAN.PIndependent · IND9440.1%
- 15GOPALAKRISHNAN.K.MIndependent · IND8930.1%
- 16SRIRANGAN.NIndependent · IND5740.1%
- 17ALAGURAMANIndependent · IND5700.1%
- 18SELVAM.A.CIndependent · IND3780.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–INC swing
- +70.0%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 42.7%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → 62.1%