A comparison of vote share data between the 2011 and 2022 elections to the Greater Chennai Corporation showed that the victory of the alliance led by the ruling DMK was indeed huge as it secured more than half of the total votes polled.
The data showed that the AIADMK’s loss was significant with the party just securing 20.82% of votes in the 2022 elections compared to 41.58 % that it secured in the 2011 elections, which it won.
The data showed how the alliance partners of the DMK managed to convert the party’s vote share to their advantage. While the Congress (INC), the CPI(M), the CPI, the VCK, and the MDMK secured vote share of less than 5% in 2011, when they mostly contested alone, their vote share in the contested seats increased to more than 35% each in these elections. However, it has to be noted that these parties contested only 31 seats in this election.
