Constituency
388. Dharmapuri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DHARMAPURI
PMK 55.0%won by 16.0%TMCM 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 16.0%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 0.0% to 55.0% of the vote here (+55.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.1% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.2% to 52.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,75,234
Turnout
52.9%
Valid votes
6,21,241
Margin
99,427
16.00%
Candidates
10 contested · winner PMK- 1PARY MOHAN K.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK3,41,91755.0%
- 2THEERTHARAMAN P.TMCM · TMCM2,42,49039.0%
- 3VENKATESAN P.Independent · IND14,7882.4%
- 4PATTABIRAMAN P.K.UCPI · UCPI10,0181.6%
- 5JAYASEELAN C.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,6930.9%
- 6GOPAL INAMURASU A.Rashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,1850.5%
- 7THIYAGARAJAN N.R.Independent · IND1,2220.2%
- 8PADMARAJAN DR.K.Independent · IND9990.2%
- 9MAHENDIRAN D.Independent · IND5590.1%
- 10MANICKAM K.Independent · IND3700.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–TMCM swing
- +58.7%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 55.0%
- TMCM share
- 42.7% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- 62.1% → 52.9%