Constituency
395. Coimbatore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-COIMBATORE
BJP 55.8%won by 18.0%DMK 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 18.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 5.3% to 55.8% of the vote here (+50.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.2% to 53.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,95,356
Turnout
53.8%
Valid votes
8,04,485
Margin
1,44,676
17.98%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1RADHAKRISHNAN C.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,49,26955.8%
- 2SUBBIAN K.R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,04,59337.9%
- 3KRISHNAN R.Indian National Congress · INC40,7395.1%
- 4KALYANASUNDARAM S.T.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,5960.6%
- 5RANGASAMY R.Independent · IND1,4310.2%
- 6KRISHNASWAMY R.Independent · IND1,1810.1%
- 7SANTHI C.Independent · IND1,0910.1%
- 8SAMINATHAN M.Independent · IND6660.1%
- 9RAMASWAMY.O.Samajwadi Andolan Party · SAP4050.1%
- 10LAKSHMANA NARAYANAN R.Independent · IND2200.0%
- 11ELANGKUMARAN R.Independent · IND1610.0%
- 12RAGHAVENDRA K.S.Independent · IND1330.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–DMK swing
- +69.5%
- BJP share
- 5.3% → 55.8%
- DMK share
- 56.8% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- 62.0% → 53.8%