Constituency
114. Pongalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PONGALUR
INC 32.3%won by 0.4%ADKJL 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 32.3% of the vote here (+32.3%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.1% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
98,254
Margin
440
0.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BALASUBRAMONIYAM, S.R.Indian National Congress · INC31,69132.3%
- 2PALANISAMY, N.S.ADKJL · ADKJL31,25131.8%
- 3VIJAYALAKSHMI, P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,09727.6%
- 4DURAIRAJ, K.M.ADKJR · ADKJR6,9237.0%
- 5MANI, V.P.Independent · IND8220.8%
- 6CHINNAVADAMBACHERY SUNDARRAJU, A.Independent · IND4700.5%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–ADKJL swing
- +0.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —