Election
Constituency

84. Mettur

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989

TN-METTUR

CPM 25.6%won by 1.2%ADKJR 24.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.2%.

  • CPM vote shareCPM went from 18.4% to 25.6% of the vote here (+7.2%).
  • New challengerADKJR (ADKJR) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1984.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.0% between them, down from 77.7% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
90,996
Margin
1,128
1.24%

Since 1984

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
CPMflipped
CPMADKJR swing
−17.2%
CPM share
18.4% 25.6%
ADKJR share
0.0% 24.4%
Turnout