Constituency
7. Egmore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-EGMORE
DMK 49.8%won by 27.5%INC 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
76,369
Margin
20,969
27.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1ELAMVAZHUTHIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,03249.8%
- 2POLUR VARADHANIndian National Congress · INC17,06322.3%
- 3NEELAKANDAN, V.ADKJL · ADKJL16,12421.1%
- 4SUBRAMANI M. ALIAS MA. SU. MANIADKJR · ADKJR4,2935.6%
- 5SAMPATH, S.Independent · IND4360.6%
- 6GAJAVALLI, S.Independent · IND1410.2%
- 7NATARAJAN, G.Independent · IND1390.2%
- 8MUNUSWAMI, N.Independent · IND790.1%
- 9RAJAN, V.K.Independent · IND620.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–INC swing
- +23.0%
- DMK share
- 51.8% → 49.8%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —