Constituency
387. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHIDAMBARAM
PMK 45.8%won by 1.2%DMK 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 1.2%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 23.2% to 45.8% of the vote here (+22.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 63.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,54,642
Turnout
63.2%
Valid votes
6,66,594
Margin
7,955
1.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner PMK- 1ELUMALAI ALIAS EZHILMALAI R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,05,37245.8%
- 2GANESAN V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,97,41744.6%
- 3VALLALPERUMAN DR. P.Indian National Congress · INC43,2146.5%
- 4NAGAPPAN P.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP19,9223.0%
- 5JAYARAJ S.Independent · IND3510.1%
- 6JANAKIRAMAN V.Independent · IND3180.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +26.7%
- PMK share
- 23.2% → 45.8%
- DMK share
- 48.7% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- 67.3% → 63.2%