Constituency
400. Periyakulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PERIYAKULAM
AIADMK 53.1%won by 11.7%DMK 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 11.7%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 29.4% to 53.1% of the vote here (+23.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.3% to 55.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,79,255
Turnout
55.8%
Valid votes
6,02,499
Margin
70,580
11.71%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AIADMK- 1MUTHIAH .RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,19,67253.1%
- 2GANDHIMATHY.RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,49,09241.3%
- 3MOOKIAH.CPuthiya Tamilagam · PT20,2193.4%
- 4DEIVENDRAN, P.V.KIndependent · IND5,5490.9%
- 5VEERAPRAKASH.MIndian National Congress · INC4,2140.7%
- 6MURUGAN.BIndependent · IND1,2310.2%
- 7PALANICHAMY.KIndependent · IND1,1300.2%
- 8MURUGARAJ.SIndependent · IND4690.1%
- 9ELAMURUGAN.KIndependent · IND2520.0%
- 10KAMATCHI.AIndependent · IND2240.0%
- 11MURUGAN .VIndependent · IND2000.0%
- 12MOOVENDAN.AIndependent · IND1470.0%
- 13VEERASWAMY .RIndependent · IND1000.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +31.4%
- AIADMK share
- 29.4% → 53.1%
- DMK share
- 49.1% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 65.1% → 55.8%