Constituency
401. Karur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KARUR
AIADMK 46.5%won by 0.4%DMK 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.7% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 46.1% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.0% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,70,582
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
7,19,705
Margin
2,847
0.40%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Chinnasamy, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,34,40746.5%
- 2Palanisamy, K.C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,31,56046.1%
- 3Natrayan, K.TMCM · TMCM45,5396.3%
- 4Sathiyamoorthy,K.Independent · IND4,9700.7%
- 5Senthil Raja, S.Independent · IND9430.1%
- 6Balakrishnan, S.Independent · IND8650.1%
- 7Mathivanan, T.Independent · IND3750.1%
- 8Chinnasamy, M.Independent · IND2780.0%
- 9Srinivasan,C.Independent · IND2710.0%
- 10Dayalan, R.M.Independent · IND2590.0%
- 11Murugesan, P.Independent · IND2380.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −50.0%
- AIADMK share
- 50.4% → 46.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- 57.5% → 61.5%