Constituency
160. Perambalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PERAMBALUR
CPI 34.5%won by 0.4%DMK 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 34.5% of the vote here (+34.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 95.0% — 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
1,00,912
Margin
431
0.43%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1R. PITCHAIMUTHUCommunist Party of India · CPI34,82934.5%
- 2M. DEVARAJDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,39834.1%
- 3K. NALIAMUTHUIndian National Congress · INC21,30021.1%
- 4N. SELVARAJUADKJR · ADKJR7,3897.3%
- 5P. PERIYASAMIIndependent · IND1,1661.2%
- 6M. PALANIMUTHUIndependent · IND1,0541.0%
- 7S. JANAGARASANIndependent · IND3630.4%
- 8K. VADIVELIndependent · IND2410.2%
- 9SELVI V. JEENAIndependent · IND1720.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–DMK swing
- +31.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 34.5%
- DMK share
- 31.1% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —