Constituency
412. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-TENKASI
AIADMK 35.9%won by 0.1%BJP 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.1% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 35.7% — it did not contest here in 1998.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,44,090
Turnout
63.9%
Valid votes
6,66,826
Margin
887
0.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Murugesan,S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,39,24135.9%
- 2Arumugam,S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,38,35435.7%
- 3Krishnasamy, Dr. K.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT1,86,22027.9%
- 4Bala Murugan, D.Independent · IND2,3160.3%
- 5Shanmuga Sundaraj, R.Independent · IND6950.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–BJP swing
- −41.7%
- AIADMK share
- 41.8% → 35.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- 63.6% → 63.9%