Constituency
395. Coimbatore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-COIMBATORE
BJP 49.2%won by 6.2%CPI 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.0% to 6.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 43.0% — it did not contest here in 1998.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
15,71,475
Turnout
55.6%
Valid votes
8,74,020
Margin
54,077
6.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1Radhakrishnan, C.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,30,06849.2%
- 2Nallakannu, R.Communist Party of India · CPI3,75,99143.0%
- 3Balasubramonian, S.R.TMCM · TMCM45,2055.2%
- 4Lakshmana Narayanan, R.Independent · IND9,5021.1%
- 5Sengottaian, M.P.Independent · IND3,3000.4%
- 6Thirumoorthy, K.FBL · FBL3,0890.4%
- 7Arjun SampathIndependent · IND2,8660.3%
- 8Noormuhamad, A.Independent · IND2,5350.3%
- 9Palanisamy, R.TDK · TDK1,4640.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPI swing
- −49.7%
- BJP share
- 55.8% → 49.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- 53.8% → 55.6%