Constituency
84. Mettur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-METTUR
CPM 25.6%won by 1.2%ADKJR 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
90,996
Margin
1,128
1.24%
Candidates
14 contested · winner CPM- 1SREERANGAN, M.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,30825.6%
- 2GURUSAMY, K.ADKJR · ADKJR22,18024.4%
- 3NARAYANAN, R.Indian National Congress · INC20,72122.8%
- 4NACHIMUTHU, K.P.Independent · IND15,09416.6%
- 5NAVAMANI, K.Communist Party of India · CPI7,4098.1%
- 6SIDHAN, K.K.Independent · IND5410.6%
- 7PONRAJ, D.Independent · IND4000.4%
- 8CHINNAPONNAN, G.P.Independent · IND3420.4%
- 9ABDUL AZEES, N.B.Independent · IND2280.3%
- 10SELLAMUTHU, S.Independent · IND2050.2%
- 11MANOHARAN, M.G.Independent · IND1570.2%
- 12PADMARAJAN, K.Independent · IND1560.2%
- 13JEYABAL, T.K.Independent · IND1470.2%
- 14MANISEKARAN, K.Independent · IND1080.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–ADKJR swing
- −17.2%
- CPM share
- 18.4% → 25.6%
- ADKJR share
- 0.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —