Constituency
93. Talavasal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-TALAVASAL
DMK 33.9%won by 6.4%ADKJL 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 6.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 30.8% to 33.9% of the vote here (+3.1%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.5% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
95,229
Margin
6,079
6.38%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1S. GUNASEKARANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,30933.9%
- 2T. RAJAMBALADKJL · ADKJL26,23027.5%
- 3K. KANDASAMYIndian National Congress · INC23,59624.8%
- 4P. VENKATACHALAMADKJR · ADKJR10,85511.4%
- 5P. RAJATHIIndependent · IND6850.7%
- 6M. KANDASAMYIndependent · IND4470.5%
- 7M.C. RAJENDIRANIndependent · IND3510.4%
- 8K. MUTHULINGAMIndependent · IND2880.3%
- 9M. SADEYANIndependent · IND2060.2%
- 10MOO. MARIMUTHUIndependent · IND1550.2%
- 11K. MARUTHAMUTHUIndependent · IND1070.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −24.4%
- DMK share
- 30.8% → 33.9%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —