Constituency
396. Pollachi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-POLLACHI
TMCM 55.2%won by 21.2%AIADMK 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 21.2%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 55.2% of the vote here (+55.2%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.2% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 67.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,68,739
Turnout
67.7%
Valid votes
6,55,567
Margin
1,38,891
21.19%
Candidates
11 contested · winner TMCM- 1KANDASAMY .VTMCM · TMCM3,61,74355.2%
- 2ANNA NAMBI .RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,22,85234.0%
- 3RAJAN K NJanata Dal · JD49,0327.5%
- 4ELANGANDHI .E.KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,1232.3%
- 5NATTARAYAN .NIndependent · IND1,8400.3%
- 6VELUSWAMY .KIndependent · IND1,5870.2%
- 7RAJAN KIndependent · IND1,4830.2%
- 8THANGAVELU .VIndependent · IND7090.1%
- 9THANGARAJ .TIndependent · IND4360.1%
- 10MUNIAPPAN .SIndependent · IND4060.1%
- 11VELUSWAMY .KIndependent · IND3560.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–AIADMK swing
- +21.2%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 55.2%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 65.6% → 67.7%