Constituency
400. Periyakulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PERIYAKULAM
AIADMK 46.1%won by 7.0%DMK 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.7% to 7.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.3% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.9% to 58.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,21,725
Turnout
58.7%
Valid votes
6,58,531
Margin
45,806
6.96%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Dhinakaran,All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,03,88146.1%
- 2Selvendran, P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,58,07539.2%
- 3Manssoor Alikhan, A.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT87,42913.3%
- 4Jegannathan,P. R.DTMK · DTMK1,4140.2%
- 5Sadayandi, A.Independent · IND1,3270.2%
- 6Rajagopal, C.Independent · IND1,2560.2%
- 7Elamurugan, K.Independent · IND1,1050.2%
- 8Segar,S. R.Independent · IND9590.1%
- 9Selvam, P.FBL · FBL9280.1%
- 10Kalichamy, V.Independent · IND6700.1%
- 11Kandasamy, K.Independent · IND4860.1%
- 12Pandiammal, K.(Tmt)Independent · IND2750.0%
- 13Palanichamy, K.Independent · IND2090.0%
- 14Kasimayan, V.Independent · IND2060.0%
- 15Saravanapandian, P.Independent · IND1620.0%
- 16Pooviah, S.Independent · IND1490.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −4.8%
- AIADMK share
- 53.1% → 46.1%
- DMK share
- 41.3% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- 55.8% → 58.7%