Constituency
71. Rishivandiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-RISHIVANDIYAM
DMK 47.0%won by 5.8%INC 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,02,287
Margin
5,961
5.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1EKAL M. NETESA VDYARDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK48,03047.0%
- 2S. SIVARAJIndian National Congress · INC42,06941.1%
- 3T.N. MOORTHYADKJR · ADKJR8,4368.2%
- 4P. VIJAYANANADKJL · ADKJL2,4972.4%
- 5V. VENKATARAMANIFT · IFT7460.7%
- 6T. ABDUL WAHABIndependent · IND2570.3%
- 7K. ANNOSAMYIndependent · IND2520.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +12.0%
- DMK share
- 45.8% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 51.9% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —