Constituency
92. Attur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-ATTUR
DMK 38.2%won by 6.6%ADKJL 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 6.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 29.5% to 38.2% of the vote here (+8.7%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 31.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.8% between them, down from 96.0% — 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
87,971
Margin
5,825
6.62%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1RAMASAMY, A.M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK33,62038.2%
- 2SUBRAMANIAM, M.P.ADKJL · ADKJL27,79531.6%
- 3PALANIMUTHU, C.Indian National Congress · INC15,55917.7%
- 4RAMANATHAN, K.V.Independent · IND7,2018.2%
- 5MURUGESAN, K.V.Independent · IND1,6361.9%
- 6ASHOKAN, V.Independent · IND7480.9%
- 7ANNAMALAI, A.Independent · IND3490.4%
- 8DHARMARAJAN, A.Independent · IND2670.3%
- 9GANESAN, M.Independent · IND2620.3%
- 10THIRUGNANASAMBANDHAM, K.Independent · IND2540.3%
- 11PALANIVEL, K.L.Independent · IND1540.2%
- 12RAJENDRAN, N.Independent · IND880.1%
- 13PARAMASIVAM, K.Independent · IND380.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −22.9%
- DMK share
- 29.5% → 38.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —