Constituency
65. Kurinjipadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KURINJIPADI
DMK 47.1%won by 30.3%ADKJL 16.8%
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 30.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 37.8% to 47.1% of the vote here (+9.3%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 16.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.0% between them, down from 87.7% — 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
95,222
Margin
28,844
30.29%
Candidates
14 contested · winner DMK- 1GANESHMURTHY, N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,88747.1%
- 2RASENDRAN, R.ADKJL · ADKJL16,04316.8%
- 3NATESAN, C.Indian National Congress · INC15,00015.8%
- 4SIVASHANMUGAM, R.ADKJR · ADKJR7,9238.3%
- 5SHANMUGASUNDARAM, R.IFT · IFT6,3116.6%
- 6DAKSHINAMURTHY, K.V.Independent · IND1,0191.1%
- 7JAYAKUMAR, V.Independent · IND9551.0%
- 8THANGAVEL, M.P.Independent · IND8430.9%
- 9ARASUGANESAN, A.Independent · IND8230.9%
- 10DHANAGOPAL, G.Independent · IND6100.6%
- 11RAHIMAN SAIT, M.K.S.Ics (Scs) · ICSSCS3190.3%
- 12RADHA, M.Independent · IND2700.3%
- 13DURAISWAMY, R.N.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 14VENKATACCHALAM, R.Independent · IND1040.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −7.6%
- DMK share
- 37.8% → 47.1%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —