Constituency
103. Thondamuthur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THONDAMUTHUR
CPM 42.1%won by 14.6%ADKJL 27.5%
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 14.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 38.5% to 42.1% of the vote here (+3.5%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% 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
1,48,168
Margin
21,603
14.58%
Candidates
16 contested · winner CPM- 1VELLINGIRI, U.K.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,30542.1%
- 2SHANMUGAM, P.ADKJL · ADKJL40,70227.5%
- 3CHINNARAJ, M.ADKJR · ADKJR27,52218.6%
- 4SWAMINATHAN, P.Independent · IND13,2058.9%
- 5GOPALASAMY, N.Independent · IND7820.5%
- 6NATRAJ, K.Independent · IND6250.4%
- 7SAMY, A.N.Independent · IND5770.4%
- 8CHINNASAMY, A.Independent · IND4570.3%
- 9SHAFUDEEN, A.Independent · IND4320.3%
- 10MARAN, N.Independent · IND3950.3%
- 11GANESAN, P.Independent · IND3300.2%
- 12CHINNASAMY, T.Independent · IND2330.2%
- 13ARANGASAMY, A.Independent · IND1820.1%
- 14SELVAKUMAR ALIAS SELVARAJAN, J.Independent · IND1650.1%
- 15RANGASAMY, J.M.Independent · IND1350.1%
- 16VENUGOPAL, N.Independent · IND1210.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–ADKJL swing
- −23.9%
- CPM share
- 38.5% → 42.1%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —