Constituency
170. Poompuhar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-POOMPUHAR
DMK 47.3%won by 27.7%ADKJL 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 27.7%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 19.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
85,897
Margin
23,818
27.73%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1M. MOHAMED SIDDIKDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,65747.3%
- 2R. RAJAMANNARADKJL · ADKJL16,83919.6%
- 3N. VIJAYABALANADKJR · ADKJR13,79316.1%
- 4M. A. JAMAL MOHIEEN PAPAIndependent · IND13,42515.6%
- 5N. RENGANATHANIndependent · IND7300.8%
- 6S. VIJAYAKUMARIndependent · IND2670.3%
- 7T. RAJA BATHERIndependent · IND1860.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −19.0%
- DMK share
- 46.8% → 47.3%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —