Constituency
398. Dindigul
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DINDIGUL
AIADMK 43.8%won by 3.0%DMK 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 2.6% to 3.0%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 40.8% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.5% between them, down from 90.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.5% to 56.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,94,616
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
6,73,398
Margin
20,343
3.02%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Sreenivaasan, C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,94,79443.8%
- 2Chandrasekar, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,74,45140.8%
- 3Chitthan, N.S.V.TMCM · TMCM69,71310.4%
- 4Surendran, K.FBL · FBL32,3424.8%
- 5Subramanian, R.Independent · IND9950.1%
- 6Kepran, S.Independent · IND3610.1%
- 7Pandiammal, K.Independent · IND3490.1%
- 8Ravindran, J.Independent · IND1990.0%
- 9Machakkalai, M.Independent · IND1940.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −43.5%
- AIADMK share
- 46.5% → 43.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- 51.9% → 56.4%