Constituency
38. Pernambattu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PERNAMBATTU
DMK 42.9%won by 11.6%ADKJL 31.3%
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 11.6%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% 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
98,431
Margin
11,446
11.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1GOVINDAN, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,26442.9%
- 2TAMILARASAN, I.ADKJL · ADKJL30,81831.3%
- 3RAJARATNAM, CIndian National Congress · INC17,10617.4%
- 4SAGADEVAN, C.ADKJR · ADKJR7,3867.5%
- 5SUBRAMANI, P.Independent · IND3370.3%
- 6SAMANNAN, K.Independent · IND2960.3%
- 7SUBRAMANIIndependent · IND2240.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −31.2%
- DMK share
- 42.8% → 42.9%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —