Constituency
15. Gummidipoondi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-GUMMIDIPOONDI
DMK 37.3%won by 3.6%ADKJL 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 3.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 43.4% to 37.3% of the vote here (−6.1%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.
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
98,590
Margin
3,530
3.58%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1VENU, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,80337.3%
- 2GOPAL, K.ADKJL · ADKJL33,27333.7%
- 3DHASARATHAN, C.R.Indian National Congress · INC13,42013.6%
- 4MUNIRATHINAM, R.S.ADKJR · ADKJR12,54312.7%
- 5SELVARAJ, V.Independent · IND1,2401.3%
- 6ARIVALAGAN, D.Independent · IND7230.7%
- 7ETHRAJ, K.J.Independent · IND3760.4%
- 8KATTAMMALIndependent · IND1340.1%
- 9JAYAMMALIndependent · IND780.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −39.9%
- DMK share
- 43.4% → 37.3%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —