Constituency
36. Katpadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KATPADI
DMK 43.4%won by 19.9%ADKJL 23.5%
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 19.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 39.6% to 43.4% of the vote here (+3.8%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 96.7% — 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
99,475
Margin
19,837
19.94%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAIMURUGANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK43,18143.4%
- 2MARGABANDU, R.ADKJL · ADKJL23,34423.5%
- 3DHANDAYUTHAPANI, V.Indian National Congress · INC20,85921.0%
- 4RAGUNATAN, A.M.ADKJR · ADKJR8,8588.9%
- 5SANTHANARAJ, K.P.Independent · IND2,1922.2%
- 6WATSON ISAACIndependent · IND3120.3%
- 7JOTHI, M.Independent · IND2770.3%
- 8SUBRAMANI, M.V.IFT · IFT1910.2%
- 9MICHEAL MUNISWAMY, C.Independent · IND1650.2%
- 10ARULMOZHIVARMAN, K.E.Independent · IND960.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −19.7%
- DMK share
- 39.6% → 43.4%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —