Constituency
108. Kinathukkadavu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KINATHUKKADAVU
DMK 37.5%won by 14.3%ADKJL 23.2%
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 14.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 43.3% to 37.5% of the vote here (−5.8%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 23.2% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.7% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
98,362
Margin
14,073
14.31%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1KANDASAMY, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,89737.5%
- 2APPADURAI, N.ADKJL · ADKJL22,82423.2%
- 3KAMDASAMY, K.V.ADKJR · ADKJR22,16222.5%
- 4KAILASAPPAN, S.P.Indian National Congress · INC15,60615.9%
- 5KRISHNASAMY, N.Independent · IND5810.6%
- 6ARUNAN, KI.Independent · IND2920.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −29.0%
- DMK share
- 43.3% → 37.5%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —