Constituency
402. Tiruchirappalli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
BJP 48.4%won by 1.8%TMCM 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 2.1% to 48.4% of the vote here (+46.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 11.2% to 53.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,78,258
Turnout
53.5%
Valid votes
6,30,805
Margin
11,455
1.82%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1RANGARAJAN KUMARAMANGALAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,05,23348.4%
- 2ADAIKALARAJ.LTMCM · TMCM2,93,77846.6%
- 3SUBBHA SOMUIndian National Congress · INC23,7473.8%
- 4SACHIDANANDAM. KPuthiya Tamilagam · PT4,9790.8%
- 5KALEEL.MIndependent · IND1,1330.2%
- 6ALAGIA MANAVALANIndependent · IND7490.1%
- 7SHANMUGA SUNDARAM.SRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD6120.1%
- 8AZHIMUDEEN.GIndependent · IND3730.1%
- 9RAMU.S.RIndependent · IND2010.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–TMCM swing
- +62.3%
- BJP share
- 2.1% → 48.4%
- TMCM share
- 62.6% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- 64.8% → 53.5%