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DMK supporters celebrate the party’s win in Chennai on Monday CHENNAI: As the dust settles down in the intensely fought assembly election in Tamil Nadu, data show DMK has won 133 seats and a majority on its own by polling 36.9% of the popular valid votes. This has been the party’s second-lowest vote share in the three assembly polls it had won since 1996. While the lowest has been 26.5% it got in 2006, which gave the party 96 seats and a ‘minority government’ tag, its highest was in 1996 when it got 42.1% a wave election against the incumbent AIADMK. The other Dravidian major, AIADMK, had polled 40.8% popular votes in 2016 to retain power for a second term after it came to power in 2011 with a vote share of 38.4%. AIADMK’s lowest was in 2001 when it won a majority of its own (132 seats) by securing just 31.4% of the total votes polled. ....
“DMK’s vote share in 2021 has improved by 5% compared to the 32% it got in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2016, DMK’s vote share was around 31%,” a poll strategist said. “The increase is partly due to the party’s move to restrict seats allotted to ally Congress at 25. This brought down the Congress’s vote share by around 5% from the 12.5% it got in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. By contesting from 173 seats, DMK managed to transfer a part of the Congress’s vote share to itself the strategist said. In the case of AIADMK, the party managed to improve its vote share to 34.2% in 2021 as against the 18% it got in 2019 LS polls. Though this is almost 7% lower than what it achieved in 2016, the party has managed to improve its 2021 vote share tally at the cost of PMK which was restricted to a mere 23 seats. “This way AIADMK managed to transfer 2% of PMK’s vote share to its kitty,” the strategist pointed out. One cannot compare apples with oranges, says Manuraj Shan ....
Express News Service VELLORE: The euphoria over the much trumpeted 10.5 per cent internal reservation in MBC quota for Vanniyars seems to have dissipated, as it failed to yield the desired results in the polls. Though it seems to have worked in favour of AIADMK and PMK in Salem region, it has miserably failed in northern districts of Villupuram, Cuddalore, Vellore and Tiruvannamalai. Star Vanniyar leaders, including CV Shanmugam (Minister for Law), could not win despite the projections that Vanniyar votes would get consolidated owing to the AIADMK-PMK alliance. “The outcome shows that the quota has not paid the results PMK founder S Ramadass promised. Just as it created a strong sentiment in the Vanniyar belt, it also gave rise to strong counter-response,” says Dr Ramu Manivannan, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Madras. ....