Constituency
83. Pennagaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PENNAGARAM
IND 21.1%won by 1.3%ADKJL 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.3%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 11.8% to 21.1% of the vote here (+9.3%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 40.9% between them, down from 86.4% — 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
73,468
Margin
943
1.28%
Candidates
16 contested · winner IND- 1NANJAPPAN, N.Independent · IND15,49821.1%
- 2SRINIVASAN, P.ADKJL · ADKJL14,55519.8%
- 3RAJARATHANAM, M.ADKJR · ADKJR9,80813.4%
- 4KUMARAN, S.Janata Party · JNP9,20912.5%
- 5RAJAMANIKKAM, R.Independent · IND8,87712.1%
- 6LAKSHMANAN, M.Independent · IND7,36410.0%
- 7CHANDIRAN, V.Independent · IND2,5713.5%
- 8GUNALAN. S.K.G.Independent · IND2,4313.3%
- 9KANNAN, A.Independent · IND6600.9%
- 10KARUNANIDHI, C.Independent · IND6280.9%
- 11SAMRAJ, P.Independent · IND5500.7%
- 12ANBALAKAN, T.C.Independent · IND4310.6%
- 13GNANAKANNAN, T.G.Independent · IND2900.4%
- 14SREENIVASAN, V.K.Independent · IND2700.4%
- 15MUNIAPPAN, K.M.Independent · IND1890.3%
- 16SOZHAVENTHAN, V.Independent · IND1370.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–ADKJL swing
- −10.5%
- IND share
- 11.8% → 21.1%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —