Constituency
172. Kuttalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KUTTALAM
DMK 47.6%won by 25.0%INC 22.6%
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 25.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 43.3% to 47.6% of the vote here (+4.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 22.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
99,985
Margin
24,950
24.95%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1R. RAJAMANICKAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK47,55947.6%
- 2S. DHINAKARANIndian National Congress · INC22,60922.6%
- 3N. RETHINAMADKJL · ADKJL15,84315.8%
- 4M. RAJENDRANADKJR · ADKJR12,45112.5%
- 5M. MAILAIYANIndependent · IND8690.9%
- 6C. SAMINATHA ODAYARIndependent · IND2450.2%
- 7K. BALUIndependent · IND2430.2%
- 8C. RAMALINGA SHATRIYARIndependent · IND1660.2%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- −18.4%
- DMK share
- 43.3% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —