Constituency
107. Perur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PERUR
DMK 47.4%won by 22.0%IND 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.4% to 22.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.4% — it polled just 0.4% in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
1,36,222
Margin
29,933
21.97%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1NATARAJAN, A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,56547.4%
- 2BALASUBRAMANIAN, V.D.Independent · IND34,63225.4%
- 3PARATHAGAN ALIAS SINNA THAMBI, N.ADKJR · ADKJR18,98913.9%
- 4RADHAKRISHNAN, S.Independent · IND15,64911.5%
- 5SUBRAMANIAN, K.Independent · IND1,0480.8%
- 6RAJAMANICKAM, K.G.Independent · IND4800.4%
- 7SELVARAJ, S.Independent · IND4120.3%
- 8KANDASAMY, P.Independent · IND2700.2%
- 9JEYARAJ, M.Independent · IND1770.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −30.2%
- DMK share
- 52.6% → 47.4%
- IND share
- 0.4% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —