Constituency
386. Cuddalore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-CUDDALORE
DMK 52.6%won by 17.3%AIADMK 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 17.3%.
- 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
12,06,876
Turnout
63.0%
Valid votes
7,60,180
Margin
1,31,352
17.28%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1VENKATAPATHY. KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK4,00,05952.6%
- 2RAJENDRAN. RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,68,70735.3%
- 3SARWAR KHAN. EJanata Dal (United) · JDU53,4067.0%
- 4VEERAPATRAN. P. MIndependent · IND13,6641.8%
- 5SANTHIYAGURAJ. MBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,7660.8%
- 6RAJENDIRAN. MIndependent · IND5,0300.7%
- 7VIJAYKUMAR. PIndependent · IND3,5440.5%
- 8THIYAGARAJAN. RIndependent · IND2,5990.3%
- 9RAVI. KIndependent · IND2,3270.3%
- 10DHARMALINGAM MARUR. NRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD1,9360.3%
- 11MURUGAN. CIndependent · IND1,3730.2%
- 12GOVINDAN. MIndependent · IND9200.1%
- 13DHANAKOTTI. GIndependent · IND8490.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +6.9%
- DMK share
- 50.5% → 52.6%
- AIADMK share
- 40.1% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 62.5% → 63.0%