Constituency
79. Harur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-HARUR
DMK 55.6%won by 28.7%INC 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 28.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 55.6% of the vote here (+55.6%).
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,26,930
Margin
36,403
28.68%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1VEDAMMALDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK70,56155.6%
- 2J. NATESANIndian National Congress · INC34,15826.9%
- 3P.V. KARIYAMALRPI · RPI13,21010.4%
- 4P. SHANMUGAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,1364.8%
- 5M. DASARATHANJanahitha Paksha · JP1,5081.2%
- 6R. SELVARAJIndependent · IND1,1120.9%
- 7P. VENKATASANIndependent · IND2450.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +87.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 55.6%
- INC share
- 58.6% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —