Constituency
80. Morappur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-MORAPPUR
DMK 40.6%won by 10.1%ADKJL 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 10.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.0% to 40.6% of the vote here (+5.6%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 85.8% — 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
83,831
Margin
8,507
10.15%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1MULLAIVENTHAN, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,03840.6%
- 2SEKHAR, M.G.ADKJL · ADKJL25,53130.5%
- 3VENKATACHALAMIndian National Congress · INC16,30819.5%
- 4MANOHARAN, M.Independent · IND4,9225.9%
- 5ANNAMALAI, M.Independent · IND9941.2%
- 6RAJAGURU, S.Independent · IND4460.5%
- 7SUGADEV, G.Independent · IND3380.4%
- 8RATHINASAMY, M.Independent · IND2500.3%
- 9RAMAN, V.Independent · IND2410.3%
- 10SINGARAVELU, M.Independent · IND1640.2%
- 11CHENNAN, N.V.Independent · IND1470.2%
- 12PUSHPARAJU, R.Independent · IND1380.2%
- 13ARJHUNAN, A.Independent · IND1260.2%
- 14MARIAPPAN, T.M.A.Independent · IND880.1%
- 15VISCRAY, A.Independent · IND690.1%
- 16VEDIAPPAN, E.V.Independent · IND310.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −24.9%
- DMK share
- 35.0% → 40.6%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —