Constituency
410. Sivakasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SIVAKASI
MDMK 41.8%won by 9.6%AIADMK 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.6% to 9.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.0% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,57,935
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
7,79,464
Margin
74,781
9.59%
Candidates
16 contested · winner MDMK- 1VaikoMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3,25,82941.8%
- 2Ramaswami, V.JusticeAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,51,04832.2%
- 3Gunasekaran.A.TMCM · TMCM1,52,81719.6%
- 4Thamaraikkani, R.Independent · IND36,9774.7%
- 5Somasundaram.A.Independent · IND4,6600.6%
- 6Seenichamy Thevar.A.C.FBL · FBL4,3300.6%
- 7Seenivasagan.V.Independent · IND9440.1%
- 8Subbukkalai.K.Independent · IND6690.1%
- 9Thiagarajan Alias Yogakannan, P.I.D.Independent · IND5000.1%
- 10Sahadevan.P.Independent · IND4540.1%
- 11Ramaswamy.I.Independent · IND3780.0%
- 12Kannan.V.Independent · IND2340.0%
- 13Ganesan.K.Independent · IND2240.0%
- 14Gunasekaran,N.Independent · IND1630.0%
- 15Manmathan, MIndependent · IND1540.0%
- 16Muthupandian, K.Independent · IND830.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- MDMK
- Winner now
- MDMK
- MDMK–AIADMK swing
- −41.1%
- MDMK share
- 50.7% → 41.8%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 63.5% → 62.0%