Constituency
407. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
AIADMK 37.2%won by 3.9%DMK 33.3%
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 3.9%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 37.2% of the vote here (+37.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% between them, down from 78.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 65.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,84,609
Turnout
65.3%
Valid votes
7,73,383
Margin
30,520
3.95%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PARAMASIVAM, RAJAAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,88,07237.2%
- 2SIVA, P.N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,57,55233.3%
- 3THIRUNAVUKKARASU, S.MADMK · MADMK2,26,41629.3%
- 4CHOCKALINGAM, M.R.Independent · IND8950.1%
- 5VELAPPAN, C.Independent · IND4480.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +54.4%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- DMK share
- 50.5% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- 70.2% → 65.3%