Constituency
413. Tiruchendur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TIRUCHENDUR
AIADMK 49.3%won by 8.7%TMCM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 8.7%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+49.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.9% of the vote between them, up from 75.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.6% to 52.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,14,366
Turnout
52.8%
Valid votes
5,35,637
Margin
46,855
8.75%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAMARAAJANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,64,29049.3%
- 2DHANUSKODI ATHITHAN R.TMCM · TMCM2,17,43540.6%
- 3KUMARI ANANTHANIndian National Congress · INC38,2917.1%
- 4PACKIARAJ SATHAI, A.Independent · IND11,4082.1%
- 5CHANDRASEKARAN,KALANTHI,PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,1660.6%
- 6RAJAGOPALAN, N.Independent · IND6920.1%
- 7DEVADASON RAJA S.Independent · IND3550.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–TMCM swing
- +64.3%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 49.3%
- TMCM share
- 55.6% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- 58.4% → 52.8%