Constituency
218. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-TIRUNELVELI
AIADMK 40.9%won by 0.7%DMK 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 0.7%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 32.1% to 40.9% of the vote here (+8.9%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 722 votes (0.69%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,04,492
Margin
722
0.69%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1NAINAR NAGENDRAN.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,76540.9%
- 2SUBRAMANIAN.A.L.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,04340.2%
- 3SARAVANAPERUMAL.SSamajwadi Party · SP11,02510.6%
- 4SHANMUGASUNDARAM.RMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,9804.8%
- 5JABARULLAKHAN.P.Independent · IND1,5951.5%
- 6SANKARAPANDIAN.T.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7820.7%
- 7RAJAPANDIAN.JIndependent · IND4450.4%
- 8VELU.AIndependent · IND4100.4%
- 9ARUMUGANAINAR.TIndependent · IND2290.2%
- 10AYYAPPAN.PIndependent · IND2180.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +21.1%
- AIADMK share
- 32.1% → 40.9%
- DMK share
- 52.5% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —