Constituency
96. Namakkal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-NAMAKKAL
DMK 35.6%won by 3.7%ADKJL 31.9%
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 3.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.0% to 35.6% of the vote here (−4.4%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 31.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
1,18,026
Margin
4,343
3.68%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1P. DURAISAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,97935.6%
- 2S. RAJUADKJL · ADKJL37,63631.9%
- 3V.K.R. RAJARAMIndian National Congress · INC28,60624.2%
- 4M. DURAIRAJADKJR · ADKJR7,4746.3%
- 5P. KANDASAMYIndependent · IND8240.7%
- 6T.V. ANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6590.6%
- 7A. SELVAMIndependent · IND3240.3%
- 8M. PONNAMBALAMIndependent · IND1740.1%
- 9K. PALANISAMYIndependent · IND1470.1%
- 10K. PONNUSAMYIndependent · IND1180.1%
- 11M.R. JAYARAJIndependent · IND850.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −36.3%
- DMK share
- 40.0% → 35.6%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —