Constituency
54. Gingee
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-GINGEE
DMK 42.3%won by 24.9%IND 17.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 24.9%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 36.8% to 42.3% of the vote here (+5.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 17.4% — it polled just 1.4% in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.7% between them, down from 97.4% — 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
90,830
Margin
22,630
24.91%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1RAMACHANDIRAN, N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,41542.3%
- 2RANGANATHAN, V.Independent · IND15,78517.4%
- 3MURUGANNADHAM, T.M.Indian National Congress · INC15,63417.2%
- 4PARTHASARATHY, K.ADKJL · ADKJL9,89510.9%
- 5KRISHNASMY, G.ADKJR · ADKJR8,4439.3%
- 6INIYADAYALAN, G.Independent · IND9891.1%
- 7BALARAMA GOUNDER, C.Independent · IND6400.7%
- 8KASIRAJAN, R.Independent · IND5760.6%
- 9MAYAKRISHNAN, OM. G.Independent · IND4530.5%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–IND swing
- −10.4%
- DMK share
- 36.8% → 42.3%
- IND share
- 1.4% → 17.4%
- Turnout
- — → —