Constituency
385. Tindivanam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-TINDIVANAM
MDMK 47.3%won by 1.4%INC 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.8% to 1.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,28,742
Turnout
60.6%
Valid votes
6,83,601
Margin
9,350
1.37%
Candidates
8 contested · winner MDMK- 1Ramachandran N. Gingee.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,23,23447.3%
- 2Ramamurthee K.Indian National Congress · INC3,13,88445.9%
- 3Subramanian S.P.TMCM · TMCM40,8796.0%
- 4Veeramuthu G.Rashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,1130.3%
- 5Raghavan G.AJBP · AJBP1,4040.2%
- 6Punniyakotti N.Independent · IND1,1780.2%
- 7Mohamed Alijinna M.Independent · IND4960.1%
- 8Iniyadayalan G.Independent · IND4130.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- MDMK
- Winner now
- MDMK
- MDMK–INC swing
- −43.4%
- MDMK share
- 49.4% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 4.6% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- 60.9% → 60.6%