Constituency
385. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2024
IN-CHIDAMBARAM
VCK 43.3%won by 8.9%AIADMK 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 8.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 86.5% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
11,67,071
Margin
1,03,554
8.87%
Candidates
15 contested · winner VCK- 1THIRUMAAVALAVAN THOLViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi · VCK5,05,08443.3%
- 2CHANDRAHASAN MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK4,01,53034.4%
- 3KARTHIYAYINI PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,68,49314.4%
- 4JANCIRANI RNTK · NTK65,5895.6%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA8,7610.8%
- 6NEELAMEGAM KBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2030.3%
- 7TAMILVENDHAN PIndependent · IND3,0620.3%
- 8PERUMAL SIndependent · IND2,2390.2%
- 9VETTRIVEL GIndependent · IND2,0410.2%
- 10ARCHUNAN M A TIndependent · IND1,8360.2%
- 11DHAMODHARAN SNaadaalum Makkal Katchi · NMK1,6420.1%
- 12RATHA GIndependent · IND1,2800.1%
- 13RAJAMANICKAM CIndependent · IND1,0870.1%
- 14CHINNADURAI AIndependent · IND6380.1%
- 15ELAVARASAN CIndependent · IND5860.1%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- VCK
- Winner now
- VCK
- VCK–AIADMK swing
- +8.6%
- VCK share
- 43.4% → 43.3%
- AIADMK share
- 43.1% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → —