Constituency
29. Thiruvallur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THIRUVALLUR
DMK 47.2%won by 23.3%ADKJL 23.9%
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 23.3%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 23.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 98.2% — 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
95,567
Margin
22,239
23.27%
Candidates
12 contested · winner DMK- 1S.R. MUNIRATHINAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK45,09147.2%
- 2M. SELVARAJADKJL · ADKJL22,85223.9%
- 3D. SUDARSANAMIndian National Congress · INC17,68618.5%
- 4PATTABIRAMANADKJR · ADKJR7,3007.6%
- 5R. SURENDRANIcs (Scs) · ICSSCS1,1341.2%
- 6M. SAMPATHKUMARIndependent · IND4310.5%
- 7M. MANIIndependent · IND3240.3%
- 8T. VARADARAJANIndependent · IND2400.3%
- 9D. SAGARIAIndependent · IND1500.2%
- 10R. ARANGANALIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 11P. VELLAIGANIndependent · IND1090.1%
- 12P. DAMODARANIndependent · IND1030.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −23.2%
- DMK share
- 46.4% → 47.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —