Constituency
382. Vellore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-VELLORE
PMK 49.1%won by 3.9%DMK 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 3.9%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 0.0% to 49.1% of the vote here (+49.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 61.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,01,216
Turnout
61.2%
Valid votes
6,73,929
Margin
26,405
3.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PMK- 1SHANMUGAM N.T.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,31,03549.1%
- 2MOHAMMED SAQHY T.A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,04,63045.2%
- 3AKBER PASHA BIndian National Congress · INC18,8852.8%
- 4PADMANABHAN MIndependent · IND17,8372.6%
- 5SATHIYAMOORTHY JSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP8360.1%
- 6DHARANIVASAN B.S.Independent · IND7060.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +61.4%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 49.1%
- DMK share
- 57.5% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- 64.8% → 61.2%