Constituency
384. Vandavasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-VANDAVASI
PMK 50.7%won by 10.1%TMCM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 10.1%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 15.6% to 50.7% of the vote here (+35.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.2% of the vote between them, up from 75.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.9% to 60.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,75,770
Turnout
60.0%
Valid votes
6,45,536
Margin
65,075
10.08%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PMK- 1DURAI M.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,27,01050.7%
- 2BALARAMAN L.TMCM · TMCM2,61,93540.6%
- 3KRISHANASWAMY.MIndian National Congress · INC34,8275.4%
- 4KUPPUSAMY ALIAS ARATTAVADYAR R.Independent · IND21,2193.3%
- 5CHANDRABOSE G.S.Independent · IND5450.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–TMCM swing
- +44.8%
- PMK share
- 15.6% → 50.7%
- TMCM share
- 50.3% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- 65.9% → 60.0%