Constituency
394. Gobichettipalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-GOBICHETTIPALAYAM
AIADMK 47.8%won by 4.8%DMK 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.0% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
10,66,362
Turnout
58.7%
Valid votes
6,26,188
Margin
30,012
4.79%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Kaliappan, K.K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,99,18447.8%
- 2Arjun, K.G.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,69,17243.0%
- 3Kuppuswamy, C.K.TMCM · TMCM48,3047.7%
- 4Manikandan, Era.TDK · TDK3,2240.5%
- 5Ramamoorthy, S.A.Independent · IND2,5060.4%
- 6PalanisamyIndependent · IND1,0690.2%
- 7Chinna Ponnu Vathiyar, V.M.Independent · IND7960.1%
- 8Elango, K.T.Independent · IND5660.1%
- 9Arumugham, K.K.Independent · IND4720.1%
- 10Mathal, (Tmt)Independent · IND4570.1%
- 11Sheik Dawood, A.M.Independent · IND4380.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −14.2%
- AIADMK share
- 54.7% → 47.8%
- DMK share
- 35.7% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- 59.0% → 58.7%