Constituency
159. Lalgudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-LALGUDI
DMK 45.9%won by 19.6%ADKJL 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 19.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 45.9% of the vote here (+45.9%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
1,18,125
Margin
23,188
19.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1NEHRU K. N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK54,27545.9%
- 2THIRUNAVUKKARASU SAMIADKJL · ADKJL31,08726.3%
- 3VENKATACHALAM, K.Indian National Congress · INC21,77718.4%
- 4NATARAJAN, R.ADKJR · ADKJR10,5859.0%
- 5KUMARASAMY, A. S.Independent · IND4010.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- +19.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 45.9%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —