Constituency
177. Thiruthuraipundi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THIRUTHURAIPUNDI
CPI 43.3%won by 7.2%DMK 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.8% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% 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
1,15,379
Margin
8,278
7.17%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1PALANISAMY G.Communist Party of India · CPI49,98243.3%
- 2KUPPUSAMY N.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,70436.1%
- 3DAKSHINAMOORTHI T.Indian National Congress · INC17,36315.0%
- 4ARCHUNAN J.ADKJR · ADKJR5,9805.2%
- 5AMBIKAPATHI K.Independent · IND2150.2%
- 6KARTHIKAYAN S.Independent · IND1350.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–DMK swing
- −47.3%
- CPI share
- 54.4% → 43.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —