Constituency
166. Tiruchirapalli-I
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-TIRUCHIRAPALLI-I
DMK 32.2%won by 7.2%INC 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.9% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.2% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
79,797
Margin
5,744
7.20%
Candidates
27 contested · winner DMK- 1MALARAMANNAN A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK25,68832.2%
- 2SHIVARAJ KAIndian National Congress · INC19,94425.0%
- 3MOHAMED ANSARI A.ADKJL · ADKJL19,76324.8%
- 4KRISHNAMURTHY V.Independent · IND7,8199.8%
- 5SRINIVASAN T.Independent · IND5,2816.6%
- 6MURUGAN P.Independent · IND1580.2%
- 7PAUL RAJ G. A.Independent · IND1410.2%
- 8SEKAR P.Independent · IND1020.1%
- 9KRISHNAMOORTHY R.Independent · IND1000.1%
- 10RAJARETHINAM P.Independent · IND940.1%
- 11THANGARAJ K.Independent · IND750.1%
- 12VIJAYARENGAN N.Independent · IND650.1%
- 13MICHEL RAJ A.Independent · IND640.1%
- 14PURUSHOTHAMAN K.Independent · IND550.1%
- 15EHAMBARAM R.Independent · IND540.1%
- 16RAMARAJ S.Independent · IND440.1%
- 17PARAMASIVAM M.Independent · IND420.1%
- 18DEVA PRAKASAM J.Independent · IND410.1%
- 19VIJAYAN T.Independent · IND390.0%
- 20LAKSHMINARAYANAN K.Independent · IND340.0%
- 21AZEEZUDEEN BASHA J.Independent · IND320.0%
- 22SHANMUGAM S.Independent · IND320.0%
- 23SOUNDRAPANDIAN K.Independent · IND310.0%
- 24PICHANDI P. S.Independent · IND290.0%
- 25VADIVELU PILLAI D.Independent · IND250.0%
- 26PANEER SELVAM G. T.Independent · IND240.0%
- 27NABISHA A.Independent · IND210.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–INC swing
- +3.3%
- DMK share
- 50.8% → 32.2%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- — → —