Constituency
134. Cumbum
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-CUMBUM
DMK 46.2%won by 13.5%ADKJL 32.6%
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 13.5%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 99.1% — 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
1,13,729
Margin
15,385
13.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1ERAMAKRISHNANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK52,50946.2%
- 2GOPALAN, R.T.ADKJL · ADKJL37,12432.6%
- 3RAMASAMI, O.Indian National Congress · INC16,81014.8%
- 4SYED KHAN, S.P.M.ADKJR · ADKJR6,4655.7%
- 5SALETH, R.Independent · IND6730.6%
- 6SURULIVELU, K.Independent · IND1030.1%
- 7ZIAUDDIN, M.Independent · IND450.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −33.4%
- DMK share
- 46.9% → 46.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —