Constituency
21. Tirupporur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-TIRUPPORUR
DMK 40.7%won by 4.2%ADKJL 36.4%
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 4.2%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 36.4% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 86.6% — 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
82,749
Margin
3,512
4.24%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1THIRUMURTHY, D.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK33,63840.7%
- 2GOVINDARAJAN, M.ADKJL · ADKJL30,12636.4%
- 3THAMIZH MANI, V.ADKJR · ADKJR9,47911.5%
- 4MNUSAMY, K.Indian National Congress · INC7,7959.4%
- 5MANI, M.G.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4330.5%
- 6KANTHIMATHI ARACHELVAMIndependent · IND3960.5%
- 7KASTHURI, S.Independent · IND3130.4%
- 8BALAKRISHNAN, P.Independent · IND2540.3%
- 9KANDASWAMY, ALIAS SINGH, M.O.Independent · IND2320.3%
- 10CHOCKALINGAM, G.Independent · IND830.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −35.0%
- DMK share
- 39.3% → 40.7%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —