Constituency
411. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-TIRUNELVELI
DMK 45.5%won by 18.3%AIADMK 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 18.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.9% to 45.5% of the vote here (+10.6%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 63.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,23,826
Turnout
63.3%
Valid votes
6,47,991
Margin
1,18,280
18.25%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1SIVAPRAKASAM D.S.A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,95,00145.5%
- 2RAJASELVAM A.R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,76,72127.3%
- 3KUTTY ALIAS SHUNMUGA CHIDAMBARAM C.A.R.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK77,64812.0%
- 4KRISHNASAMY K.Janahitha Paksha · JP61,5679.5%
- 5PONNIAH A.R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,5453.9%
- 6NAGIREDDI O.Independent · IND2,4970.4%
- 7NOORDEEN N.S.Independent · IND2,0360.3%
- 8APPASU DEIVENDRANIndependent · IND1,4610.2%
- 9RAYAPPAN M.Independent · IND1,4250.2%
- 10MUTHIA DEVARIndependent · IND1,0620.2%
- 11JOHNY SELVARAJ ALIAS THIRUSELVAMIndependent · IND6920.1%
- 12PONRAJ P.Independent · IND6470.1%
- 13CHANDRAMOHAN A.Independent · IND5500.1%
- 14TAMILSELVI T.Independent · IND4090.1%
- 15DEVADOSS R.Independent · IND3950.1%
- 16JEEVARATHINAM S.Independent · IND3350.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −16.7%
- DMK share
- 34.9% → 45.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- 58.3% → 63.3%