Constituency
76. Kaveripattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KAVERIPATTINAM
DMK 37.2%won by 3.9%ADKJL 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AKD (AKD) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 3.9%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 33.2% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 95.4% — 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
1,01,194
Margin
3,984
3.94%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1V.C. GOVINDASAMIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,61237.2%
- 2P. MINISAMYADKJL · ADKJL33,62833.2%
- 3S. KASILINGAMIndian National Congress · INC20,53820.3%
- 4K.V. VENKATARAMANADKJR · ADKJR9,4169.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AKD
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −34.3%
- DMK share
- 38.2% → 37.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → —