Constituency
405. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-NAGAPATTINAM
CPI 56.8%won by 31.9%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 31.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 45.8% to 56.8% of the vote here (+11.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.7% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,82,040
Turnout
70.7%
Valid votes
6,94,577
Margin
2,21,346
31.87%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1SELVARASU MCommunist Party of India · CPI3,94,33056.8%
- 2KANNIVANNAN MIndian National Congress · INC1,72,98424.9%
- 3THAMBUSAMY VCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,08,06915.6%
- 4RAJAMANI SBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,5822.4%
- 5GANESAN, MAVAIIndependent · IND1,6730.2%
- 6LASHMI TIndependent · IND9390.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +35.8%
- CPI share
- 45.8% → 56.8%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- 71.4% → 70.7%