Constituency
140. Sholavandan
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-SHOLAVANDAN
DMK 34.2%won by 5.3%ADKJL 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 34.2% of the vote here (+34.2%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.1% between them, down from 85.4% — 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
98,512
Margin
5,259
5.34%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1RADHAKRISHNAN, D.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK33,72634.2%
- 2MANIAN, P.S.ADKJL · ADKJL28,46728.9%
- 3CHANDRASEKARAN, A.Indian National Congress · INC18,60718.9%
- 4JAYACHANDRAN, C.Independent · IND15,67915.9%
- 5MALAICHAMY, T.Independent · IND9491.0%
- 6MANICKAM, E.TNCK · TNCK4490.5%
- 7SUNDARARAJAN, R.Independent · IND3440.3%
- 8KRISHNAN, S.Independent · IND1850.2%
- 9RENGASAMY, T.M.Independent · IND1060.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- +5.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —