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Constituency

7. Egmore

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989

TN-EGMORE

DMK 49.8%won by 27.5%INC 22.3%

What changed here

Derived

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 27.5%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.1% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
  • Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
76,369
Margin
20,969
27.46%

Since 1984

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
DMK
DMKINC swing
+23.0%
DMK share
51.8% 49.8%
INC share
47.4% 22.3%
Turnout