Constituency
68. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
DMK 42.1%won by 19.7%INC 22.4%
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 19.7%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.6% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
84,813
Margin
16,720
19.71%
Candidates
12 contested · winner DMK- 1KRISHNAMOORTHY, D.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,73842.1%
- 2RADHAKRISHNAN, A.Indian National Congress · INC19,01822.4%
- 3ARUMUGAM, N.Independent · IND12,36314.6%
- 4PANNEERSELVAM, K.P.ADKJR · ADKJR10,08811.9%
- 5MANIVASAGAM, T.Communist Party of India · CPI5,3716.3%
- 6DHARUMAN, K.Independent · IND7060.8%
- 7UMAPATHI, B.Independent · IND4960.6%
- 8RATHINASAMY, N.Independent · IND4500.5%
- 9ARASAN, P.Independent · IND3590.4%
- 10PARAMAGURU, R.K.Independent · IND960.1%
- 11BALASEKARAN, S.Independent · IND810.1%
- 12PATTUSAMY, C.Independent · IND470.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- −24.1%
- DMK share
- 43.8% → 42.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —