Constituency
407. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
DMK 50.5%won by 22.5%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 22.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 33.4% to 50.5% of the vote here (+17.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 97.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,24,547
Turnout
70.2%
Valid votes
7,89,166
Margin
1,77,873
22.54%
Candidates
22 contested · winner DMK- 1SIVA,N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,98,20950.5%
- 2SWAMINATHAN, V.N.Indian National Congress · INC2,20,33627.9%
- 3PUSHPARAJ.T.AIICT · AIICT61,8307.8%
- 4KARTHIKEYAN, R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK60,4057.7%
- 5SHANMUGANATHAN.K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,1472.0%
- 6JAHUBER I.Independent · IND8,3201.1%
- 7NAGARAJAN, C.Independent · IND2,9300.4%
- 8SANKARAN, K.Independent · IND2,8600.4%
- 9PANNEER SELVAM .MIndependent · IND2,6920.3%
- 10DURAIARASAN, A.Independent · IND2,3140.3%
- 11GANAPATHY,S.Independent · IND2,1190.3%
- 12SATHEESWARAN, RIndependent · IND1,3560.2%
- 13PANNEEER SELVAM, C.Independent · IND1,2820.2%
- 14SHANMUGANATHAN, V.Independent · IND1,1730.1%
- 15KAVIGNAR KUMARIndependent · IND1,1230.1%
- 16AROKIASAMY, A.Independent · IND1,1210.1%
- 17THILAGAVATHY.S.Independent · IND1,1160.1%
- 18ABDUL SALEM M.Independent · IND9740.1%
- 19SRINIVASAN, S.Independent · IND9140.1%
- 20RAJAMANICKAM, N.Independent · IND6860.1%
- 21IBRAHIM GUNDABAI, U.Independent · IND6510.1%
- 22BALAKRISHNAN, C.Independent · IND6080.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +53.0%
- DMK share
- 33.4% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 63.8% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- 68.9% → 70.2%