Constituency
51. Vandavasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-VANDAVASI
DMK 43.5%won by 17.4%INC 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 17.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
80,988
Margin
14,088
17.40%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1DHANARAJ, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,26443.5%
- 2GOVINDAN, T.S.Indian National Congress · INC21,17626.1%
- 3SENGUTTUVAN, C.ADKJL · ADKJL14,52217.9%
- 4MUNUSAMY, PON.ADKJR · ADKJR7,9629.8%
- 5GOVINDARAJAN, M.Independent · IND1,4211.8%
- 6SAMINATHAN, K.M.Independent · IND5240.6%
- 7ILANGOVAN, A.Independent · IND1190.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +28.8%
- DMK share
- 41.9% → 43.5%
- INC share
- 53.3% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —