Constituency
385. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2019
IN-CHIDAMBARAM
VCK 43.4%won by 0.3%AIADMK 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), which now leads by 0.3%.
- VCK vote shareVCK went from 27.7% to 43.4% of the vote here (+15.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,80,222
Turnout
77.9%
Valid votes
11,53,192
Margin
3,219
0.28%
Candidates
14 contested · winner VCK- 1THIRUMAAVALAVAN THOLViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK5,00,22943.4%
- 2CHANDRASEKAR PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK4,97,01043.1%
- 3ELAVARASAN AIndependent · IND62,3085.4%
- 4SIVAJOTHI MNTK · NTK37,4713.2%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA15,5351.3%
- 6RAVI TMNM · MNM15,3341.3%
- 7GURUSAMY PIndependent · IND7,0120.6%
- 8KRISHNARAJ MAMPK · AMPK4,6750.4%
- 9PARVATHI SDMSK · DMSK4,1000.4%
- 10JAGATHEESAN MIndependent · IND2,9930.3%
- 11KALAIYARASAN RIndependent · IND2,1550.2%
- 12KRISHNAKUMARI AIndependent · IND1,7060.1%
- 13PERIYASAMY TIndependent · IND1,4640.1%
- 14KITTU TIndependent · IND1,2000.1%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- VCKflipped
- VCK–AIADMK swing
- +12.1%
- VCK share
- 27.7% → 43.4%
- AIADMK share
- 39.5% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 79.7% → 77.9%