Constituency
376. Madras North
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MADRAS-NORTH
DMK 53.6%won by 18.2%CPM 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.1% to 18.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 43.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
20,41,341
Turnout
43.1%
Valid votes
8,79,473
Margin
1,59,789
18.17%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1Kuppusamy, C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK4,71,10153.6%
- 2Soundara Rajan, A.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,11,31235.4%
- 3Aaroon Rasheed, J.M.TMCM · TMCM81,1929.2%
- 4Sreenivasan, K. (Alias) Gandhi SreenivasanIndependent · IND2,8770.3%
- 5Kumarasamy, S.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,3210.3%
- 6Sampath, D.Independent · IND2,2270.3%
- 7Rajendran, V.V.DTMK · DTMK1,7670.2%
- 8Nithiyanantham, K.Independent · IND1,0540.1%
- 9Selvarajan, C.R.Independent · IND8320.1%
- 10Selvaraj, M.T.R.Independent · IND6380.1%
- 11Marimuthu, P.Independent · IND6330.1%
- 12Amanullah, J.M.Independent · IND5360.1%
- 13NavitaLJSPI · LJSPI4590.1%
- 14Joseph Kennedy, A.Independent · IND4480.1%
- 15Sikkandar Kasim, A.Y.Independent · IND4440.1%
- 16Amudhan, A.Independent · IND4260.0%
- 17Murthy, G.Independent · IND3850.0%
- 18Kanchana, M.Independent · IND3510.0%
- 19Ravi, A.Independent · IND2930.0%
- 20Jayasankar, G.Independent · IND1770.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPM swing
- −23.0%
- DMK share
- 47.1% → 53.6%
- CPM share
- 5.9% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 45.3% → 43.1%