Constituency
24. Acharapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-ACHARAPAKKAM
DMK 51.6%won by 35.5%ADKJR 16.2%
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 35.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 43.8% to 51.6% of the vote here (+7.8%).
- New challengerADKJR (ADKJR) finished second with 16.2% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 98.5% — 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
78,664
Margin
27,893
35.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1RAMAKRISHNAN, E.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,60951.6%
- 2SINGARAM, P.ADKJR · ADKJR12,71616.2%
- 3RAMALINGAM, V.Indian National Congress · INC10,53413.4%
- 4DHANASINGHIndependent · IND10,12212.9%
- 5MARIAPPAN, K.Independent · IND2,9213.7%
- 6GOODALORE JAYARAJIndependent · IND1,2051.5%
- 7KUPUSWAMY, S.Independent · IND3280.4%
- 8PONNUSWAMY, A.Independent · IND1620.2%
- 9MUNUSWAMY, A.Independent · IND670.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJR swing
- −8.4%
- DMK share
- 43.8% → 51.6%
- ADKJR share
- 0.0% → 16.2%
- Turnout
- — → —