Constituency
53. Melmalayanur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-MELMALAYANUR
DMK 46.7%won by 12.8%ADKJR 33.9%
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 12.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.2% to 46.7% of the vote here (+16.5%).
- New challengerADKJR (ADKJR) finished second with 33.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
99,994
Margin
12,787
12.79%
Candidates
10 contested · winner DMK- 1PANCHATCHARAM, R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,65346.7%
- 2SHANMUGAM, P.U.ADKJR · ADKJR33,86633.9%
- 3ELUMALAI, V.ADKJL · ADKJL11,60711.6%
- 4RAJADURAI, S.Indian National Congress · INC4,9755.0%
- 5GURUSAMI, R.Independent · IND9400.9%
- 6KOOTHAN, M.A.Independent · IND7110.7%
- 7CHANDRASEKARANIndependent · IND5030.5%
- 8PACHAIPPAN, R.Independent · IND4750.5%
- 9ELUMALAI, R.Independent · IND1820.2%
- 10KOTHANDAM, H.Independent · IND820.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJR swing
- −17.4%
- DMK share
- 30.2% → 46.7%
- ADKJR share
- 0.0% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —