Constituency
377. Nilgiris
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2024
IN-NILGIRIS
DMK 46.4%won by 23.6%BJP 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.4% to 23.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 22.8% — it did not contest here in 2019.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 88.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
10,18,906
Margin
2,40,585
23.61%
Candidates
17 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJA ADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK4,73,21246.4%
- 2DR MURUGAN LBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,32,62722.8%
- 3LOGESH TAMILSELVAN DAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,20,23021.6%
- 4JAYAKUMAR ANTK · NTK58,8215.8%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA13,0001.3%
- 6VIJAYAKUMAR DIndependent · IND4,8080.5%
- 7GANESHAMOORTHI ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,0330.3%
- 8BADRAN MGPOI · GPOI2,4250.2%
- 9SELVAN NIndependent · IND2,0540.2%
- 10DHANABAL RIndependent · IND1,9280.2%
- 11JAYANTHI MAPOI · APOI1,5560.2%
- 12MURUGAN YIndependent · IND1,4130.1%
- 13MURUGESANIndependent · IND1,0590.1%
- 14MALARMANNAN MSMNK · SMNK8200.1%
- 15SATHISH MIndependent · IND7400.1%
- 16KRISHNA KUMARIndependent · IND6150.1%
- 17ANBHUGURU VIndependent · IND5650.1%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–BJP swing
- −30.6%
- DMK share
- 54.2% → 46.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- 74.0% → —