Constituency
398. Dindigul
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-DINDIGUL
TMCM 64.0%won by 38.5%AIADMK 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 38.5%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 64.0% of the vote here (+64.0%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.4% between them, down from 98.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.4% to 64.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,75,085
Turnout
64.7%
Valid votes
6,95,368
Margin
2,67,914
38.53%
Candidates
11 contested · winner TMCM- 1CHITTHAN.N.S.V.TMCM · TMCM4,44,85864.0%
- 2SREENIVAASAN.CAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,76,94425.4%
- 3PASUMPONPANDIAN.SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK54,2027.8%
- 4GOPAL.PPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK10,9861.6%
- 5MUTHUMANI.RATMK · ATMK4,0600.6%
- 6BASKARAN.RIndependent · IND8450.1%
- 7VELMUNIRAJ.GIndependent · IND8100.1%
- 8SOUNDAIAN.SIndependent · IND7940.1%
- 9KARUTHAPANDIAN.T.KIndependent · IND7810.1%
- 10VIJAYARENGAN.D.K.Independent · IND5600.1%
- 11ADAIKKALAM.PIndependent · IND5280.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–AIADMK swing
- +38.5%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 64.0%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- 60.3% → 64.7%