Constituency
22. Chengalpattu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-CHENGALPATTU
DMK 45.7%won by 19.2%ADKJL 26.5%
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 19.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 48.8% to 45.7% of the vote here (−3.1%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
85,167
Margin
16,341
19.19%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1V. TAMILMANIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,94845.7%
- 2C.D. VARADARAJANADKJL · ADKJL22,60726.5%
- 3R. VASUDEVANIndian National Congress · INC12,86615.1%
- 4PONKUMARADKJR · ADKJR5,3426.3%
- 5T. MUNUSAMYIndependent · IND3,5454.2%
- 6M. RAJENDRANIndependent · IND4560.5%
- 7M. SEKARIndependent · IND3260.4%
- 8B. SAGADEVANIndependent · IND2180.3%
- 9S. NARENDRANIndependent · IND2170.3%
- 10M. PRABAKARANIndependent · IND1750.2%
- 11T.V. JEGANNATHENIndependent · IND1690.2%
- 12N. KUPPANIndependent · IND1120.1%
- 13T.M.S. MANIGURUKKALIndependent · IND900.1%
- 14R. VEERARAGHAVANIndependent · IND590.1%
- 15K. MARIMUTHU`Independent · IND370.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −29.6%
- DMK share
- 48.8% → 45.7%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —