Constituency
6. Purasawalkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-PURASAWALKAM
DMK 47.0%won by 3.9%AIADMK 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 3.9%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 43.2% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- 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
1,91,680
Margin
7,385
3.85%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1BABU, V.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK90,16847.0%
- 2VENKATESHBABUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK82,78343.2%
- 3JACQUELENE GOMEZDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK12,6916.6%
- 4ELUMALAI, V.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,0191.1%
- 5KAMALAAKANNAN, J.Samajwadi Party · SP7690.4%
- 6RAJA, K.Independent · IND6030.3%
- 7PRATHABAN, S.Independent · IND5520.3%
- 8VENKATESAN, G.Independent · IND4080.2%
- 9BALACHANDAR, V.G.Independent · IND3480.2%
- 10SATHIYASEELAN, N.Independent · IND1840.1%
- 11BABU, M.R.S.Independent · IND1610.1%
- 12VASANTHA KUMARI, A.Loktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1470.1%
- 13SENTHIL VADIVELAN, S.P.Independent · IND1390.1%
- 14BASKAR, B.Independent · IND1370.1%
- 15SATHISH KUMAR, V.Independent · IND1280.1%
- 16GIRIJATNJC · TNJC1210.1%
- 17AYYAVOO, V.Independent · IND1010.1%
- 18SUGUMAR, P.Independent · IND770.0%
- 19KUMARAN, K.Independent · IND720.0%
- 20GOPI, K.Independent · IND720.0%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −44.7%
- DMK share
- 48.5% → 47.0%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —