Constituency
412. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TENKASI
AIADMK 41.8%won by 15.1%TMCM 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 15.1%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 41.8% of the vote here (+41.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 75.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 63.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,14,494
Turnout
63.6%
Valid votes
6,45,491
Margin
97,267
15.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Murugesan,S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,70,05341.8%
- 2ARUNACHALAM.MTMCM · TMCM1,72,78626.8%
- 3Krishnasamy,Dr.k.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT1,23,59219.1%
- 4Selvaraj,V.Indian National Congress · INC77,28512.0%
- 5LAKSHMANAN,KIndependent · IND1,0590.2%
- 6Balamurugan,D.Independent · IND7160.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–TMCM swing
- +60.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- TMCM share
- 45.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- 66.4% → 63.6%