Constituency
155. Kulithalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KULITHALAI
ADKJL 43.0%won by 10.3%DMK 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to ADKJL (ADKJL), which now leads by 10.3%.
- ADKJL vote shareADKJL went from 0.0% to 43.0% of the vote here (+43.0%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 32.7% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.7% between them, down from 97.4% — 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
1,14,429
Margin
11,810
10.32%
Candidates
8 contested · winner ADKJL- 1A. PAPA SUNDARAMADKJL · ADKJL49,23143.0%
- 2A. SIVARAMANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,42132.7%
- 3R. KARUPPAIAHIndependent · IND17,55115.3%
- 4N. NALLUSAMYADKJR · ADKJR8,8147.7%
- 5R. SEKARIndependent · IND6300.6%
- 6N. THIAGARAJANIndependent · IND3970.3%
- 7T.MUTHUSAMY POOJARIIndependent · IND2060.2%
- 8S. AROCKIAMIndependent · IND1790.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- ADKJLflipped
- ADKJL–DMK swing
- +10.3%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 43.0%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —