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407. Pudukkottai

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Tamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996

IN-PUDUKKOTTAI

DMK 50.5%won by 22.5%INC 27.9%

What changed here

Derived

The 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%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMKINC swing
+53.0%
DMK share
33.4% 50.5%
INC share
63.8% 27.9%
Turnout
68.9% 70.2%