Constituency
405. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NAGAPATTINAM
CPI 58.8%won by 20.5%AIADMK 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.9% to 20.5%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.1% to 62.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,21,037
Turnout
62.6%
Valid votes
6,39,066
Margin
1,31,303
20.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1SELVARASU, M.Communist Party of India · CPI3,75,58958.8%
- 2GOPAL, DR. K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,44,28638.2%
- 3THIAGARAJAN, M.Indian National Congress · INC15,8372.5%
- 4JEEVANANDAM, G.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT3,3540.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AIADMK swing
- −36.2%
- CPI share
- 56.8% → 58.8%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- 70.7% → 62.6%