Constituency
400. Periyakulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-PERIYAKULAM
DMK 49.1%won by 19.7%AIADMK 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 19.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 27.6% to 49.1% of the vote here (+21.5%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 29.4% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 90.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.7% to 65.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,22,160
Turnout
65.1%
Valid votes
6,65,492
Margin
1,31,337
19.74%
Candidates
21 contested · winner DMK- 1GNANAGURUSAMY RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,26,66549.1%
- 2RAMASAMY RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,95,32829.4%
- 3ERAMAKRISHNAN NMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK91,60113.8%
- 4PERIASWAMY THEVAR MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,0353.0%
- 5THANGARAJ PPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK11,5031.7%
- 6PALANISAMY KIndependent · IND9,3171.4%
- 7SURULIVELU KIndependent · IND4,1620.6%
- 8RAMASAMY KIndependent · IND1,1310.2%
- 9NOORTHEEN P.KJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP6910.1%
- 10NARAYANAN V KIndependent · IND6590.1%
- 11ELANGO KIndependent · IND6320.1%
- 12RAJENDRAN PIndependent · IND5860.1%
- 13PANDIAN PIndependent · IND5450.1%
- 14AHMED ZUBER MIndependent · IND5440.1%
- 15CHELLAPPA SIndependent · IND4020.1%
- 16PARANJOTHI KIndependent · IND3610.1%
- 17ILANGO SIndependent · IND3340.1%
- 18MANIKANDAN RIndependent · IND3000.0%
- 19XAVIER M AIndependent · IND2910.0%
- 20NAGARAJAN KIndependent · IND2710.0%
- 21MURUGAN MIndependent · IND1340.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −7.9%
- DMK share
- 27.6% → 49.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- 60.4% → 65.1%