Constituency
408. Sivaganga
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-SIVAGANGA
TMCM 64.8%won by 38.3%INC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 38.3%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 64.8% of the vote here (+64.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.3% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,57,381
Turnout
61.1%
Valid votes
6,46,379
Margin
2,47,302
38.26%
Candidates
9 contested · winner TMCM- 1CHIDAMBARAM P.TMCM · TMCM4,18,77464.8%
- 2GOWRISHANKARAN M.Indian National Congress · INC1,71,47226.5%
- 3GANESAN. AMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK41,1646.4%
- 4PATTABIRAMASAMY P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,7391.0%
- 5JESU A.Independent · IND3,1150.5%
- 6LAKSHUMIKUMAR M.K.Independent · IND1,5140.2%
- 7MUTHUSAMY BHARATHI N.Independent · IND1,4560.2%
- 8ARUL DOSS PIndependent · IND1,2540.2%
- 9LOURDUSAMY A.M.Independent · IND8910.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–INC swing
- +105.8%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 64.8%
- INC share
- 67.5% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- 59.7% → 61.1%