Constituency
412. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-TENKASI
TMCM 45.0%won by 14.8%INC 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 14.8%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 45.0% of the vote here (+45.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 96.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,73,084
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
6,46,145
Margin
95,926
14.85%
Candidates
11 contested · winner TMCM- 1ARUNACHALAM, M.TMCM · TMCM2,90,66345.0%
- 2SELVARAJ V.Indian National Congress · INC1,94,73730.1%
- 3JEYARAJ P.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM82,61512.8%
- 4ARUMUGAM S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP52,1208.1%
- 5AMIRTHARAJ.T.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK16,3282.5%
- 6KARUPPASAMY S.Independent · IND2,3830.4%
- 7DEVADOSS R.Independent · IND2,0580.3%
- 8SHUMUGIAH M.Independent · IND1,9940.3%
- 9SUBRAMANIAN, M.Independent · IND1,2120.2%
- 10MARUTHAN K.Independent · IND1,0350.2%
- 11VELLAPANDI S.Independent · IND1,0000.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–INC swing
- +78.4%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 45.0%
- INC share
- 63.6% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- 64.8% → 66.4%