Constituency
90. Veerapandi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-VEERAPANDI
DMK 34.5%won by 4.0%ADKJL 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 4.0%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.1% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
1,04,369
Margin
4,141
3.97%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1VENKATACHALAM, P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,04034.5%
- 2SELVAM, S.K.ADKJL · ADKJL31,89930.6%
- 3MARIAPPAN, K.Indian National Congress · INC20,29119.4%
- 4VIJAYALAKSHMI, P.ADKJR · ADKJR10,63510.2%
- 5PRABHAKAR, M.G.C.Independent · IND2,3002.2%
- 6KRISHNAMOORTHY, N.Independent · IND1,6181.6%
- 7GOVINDAN, M.Independent · IND6730.6%
- 8RAMADEVAN, K.Independent · IND2570.2%
- 9RAMALINGAM, M.Independent · IND1960.2%
- 10PALANISAMY, D.Independent · IND1810.2%
- 11MANOHARAN, S.Independent · IND1440.1%
- 12BALRAJ, A.Independent · IND740.1%
- 13ASOK KUMAR, V.Independent · IND610.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −30.7%
- DMK share
- 34.7% → 34.5%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —