Constituency
411. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TIRUNELVELI
AIADMK 41.4%won by 1.2%DMK 40.3%
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 1.2%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 27.3% to 41.4% of the vote here (+14.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.7% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.7% to 55.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,75,467
Turnout
55.6%
Valid votes
5,98,014
Margin
6,904
1.15%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1JANARTHANAN, R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,47,82341.4%
- 2SARATH KUMAR, R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,40,91940.3%
- 3SAVIOR SELVA SURESH, Dr. A.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT86,41914.5%
- 4EDMUND, G.R.MADMK · MADMK16,7892.8%
- 5KRISHNAKANTHAN YADHAVIndependent · IND3,7950.6%
- 6BASKER, P.Independent · IND1,1000.2%
- 7NAGAIMUGAN, K.Rashtriya Janata Dal · RJD8210.1%
- 8VELMURUGAN, S.Independent · IND3480.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +19.4%
- AIADMK share
- 27.3% → 41.4%
- DMK share
- 45.5% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- 63.3% → 55.6%