Constituency
69. Vridhachalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-VRIDHACHALAM
JNP 35.5%won by 15.6%ADKJL 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 15.6%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 35.5% of the vote here (+35.5%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.3% between them, down from 95.3% — 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
93,044
Margin
14,536
15.62%
Candidates
13 contested · winner JNP- 1BHUVARAHAN, G.Janata Party · JNP33,00535.5%
- 2ARANGANATHAN, R.D.ADKJL · ADKJL18,46919.8%
- 3NAGAPPAN, PON,Independent · IND17,70219.0%
- 4THIYAGARAJANIndian National Congress · INC12,14813.1%
- 5KUPPUSAMY, D.Independent · IND7,1097.6%
- 6CHAKRAPANI, G.Independent · IND1,6121.7%
- 7THIRUNAVUKKARASU, P.IFT · IFT1,0951.2%
- 8RAJALINGAM, V.Independent · IND4030.4%
- 9ARUMUGAM, C.Independent · IND3800.4%
- 10JANIBASHA, D.Independent · IND3750.4%
- 11SAMPATH, C.Independent · IND3420.4%
- 12RAJENDRAN, R.Independent · IND2180.2%
- 13MUTHUSAMY PADAYACHIIndependent · IND1860.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–ADKJL swing
- +15.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 35.5%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —