Constituency
409. Ramanathapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-RAMANATHAPURAM
AIADMK 42.1%won by 1.1%DMK 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.1% to 1.1%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 41.1% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,15,127
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
6,29,308
Margin
6,646
1.06%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Malaisamy.K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,65,25342.1%
- 2Bhavani Rajenthiran.M.S.K. (Tmt.)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,58,60741.1%
- 3Nazeera Parvin.K.Dr.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT96,33415.3%
- 4Ramaswamy.K.O.Independent · IND5,4940.9%
- 5Kalanjiam.R.FBL · FBL2,7070.4%
- 6Ayeravalli (Alias) Ameenal.S.Independent · IND5880.1%
- 7Elavarasan.B.Independent · IND3250.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −42.8%
- AIADMK share
- 43.8% → 42.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- 54.8% → 56.4%