Constituency
407. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
MADMK 51.5%won by 8.4%INC 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to MADMK (MADMK), which now leads by 8.4%.
- MADMK vote shareMADMK went from 29.3% to 51.5% of the vote here (+22.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 43.1% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.6% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 63.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,18,297
Turnout
63.2%
Valid votes
7,70,004
Margin
64,302
8.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner MADMK- 1ThirunavukarasuMADMK · MADMK3,96,21651.5%
- 2Singaaravadivel.S.Indian National Congress · INC3,31,91443.1%
- 3Palaniappan.M. (Alias) Puratchikavidasan.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT29,4533.8%
- 4Ramaiah.M.Independent · IND7,7101.0%
- 5Mohan.A.B.Independent · IND1,9770.3%
- 6Williams.D.Independent · IND1,4130.2%
- 7Santhanalakshmi.K.Independent · IND8050.1%
- 8Chandra Velappan.V.Independent · IND5160.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- MADMKflipped
- MADMK–INC swing
- −20.9%
- MADMK share
- 29.3% → 51.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 65.3% → 63.2%