Constituency
112. Dharapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-DHARAPURAM
DMK 33.7%won by 1.4%ADKJL 32.3%
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 1.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.9% to 33.7% of the vote here (−7.2%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.0% 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
1,01,124
Margin
1,436
1.42%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1SANTHAKUMARI, T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,06933.7%
- 2PERIASAMY, A.ADKJL · ADKJL32,63332.3%
- 3KARPEGAVALLI SELVI, K.Indian National Congress · INC27,51727.2%
- 4THURKAIVEL KRISHNA MOORTHI, K. ALIAS T.V.Independent · IND5,0755.0%
- 5VEDANAYAGAM, S.Independent · IND6660.7%
- 6GOPAL, S.Independent · IND5760.6%
- 7BALAKIRSHNAN, A.K.Independent · IND3010.3%
- 8KALIMUTHU, S.Independent · IND2870.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −39.5%
- DMK share
- 40.9% → 33.7%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —