Constituency
16. Ponneri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PONNERI
DMK 44.5%won by 6.5%ADKJL 38.0%
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 6.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.0% to 44.5% of the vote here (+4.6%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 38.0% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% 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
1,16,616
Margin
7,607
6.52%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1SUNDARAM, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK51,92844.5%
- 2TAMIZHARASAN, K.ADKJL · ADKJL44,32138.0%
- 3YASODHA, D.Indian National Congress · INC14,41012.4%
- 4SEKAR K.P.K. ALIAS KULASEKARAN, K.P.ADKJR · ADKJR5,2804.5%
- 5PARAMANNANDHAN, M.Independent · IND3600.3%
- 6RAMAMOORTHI, P.M.Independent · IND2170.2%
- 7ARUMUGAM, K.NIndependent · IND1000.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −33.4%
- DMK share
- 40.0% → 44.5%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —