Constituency
402. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-CHIDAMBARAM
AIADMK 39.5%won by 11.8%VCK 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 11.8%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 39.5% of the vote here (+39.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 87.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 79.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,66,190
Turnout
79.7%
Valid votes
10,88,423
Margin
1,28,495
11.81%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHANDRAKASI, MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK4,29,53639.5%
- 2THIRUMAAVALAVAN, THOLViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK3,01,04127.7%
- 3SUDHAMANIRATHINEMPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,79,01625.6%
- 4VALLAL PERUMAN, PIndian National Congress · INC28,9882.7%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA12,1381.1%
- 6ANANDAN ALIAS KAVIGNAR ANANTHAMAALAI, SIndependent · IND8,8750.8%
- 7EZHUMALAI, VAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM6,8240.6%
- 8RAJENDRAN, KBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,1790.5%
- 9RAJKUMAR, SIndependent · IND4,8960.4%
- 10THIRUSANGU, AIndependent · IND3,3700.3%
- 11PAZHANIVEL, PIndependent · IND1,7720.2%
- 12PARVATHI, SIndependent · IND1,5430.1%
- 13PUSHPARAJ, SIndependent · IND1,5230.1%
- 14SENTHAMIZHSELVI, KIndependent · IND1,4690.1%
- 15CHANDRAGASAN, NIndependent · IND1,1820.1%
- 16SANMUGAM, AIndependent · IND1,0710.1%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- VCK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–VCK swing
- +61.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 39.5%
- VCK share
- 49.3% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- 77.2% → 79.7%