Constituency
179. Pattukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PATTUKKOTTAI
DMK 37.2%won by 13.2%INC 23.9%
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 13.2%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 23.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.1% between them, down from 86.8% — 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
1,10,852
Margin
14,681
13.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1ANNADURAI K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,22437.2%
- 2MARIMUTHU A. R.Indian National Congress · INC26,54323.9%
- 3BASKARAN S.ADKJL · ADKJL26,21523.6%
- 4RAMACHANDRAN P. N.ADKJR · ADKJR8,8017.9%
- 5RAMAN K.Independent · IND7,3906.7%
- 6CHOKKALINGAM M. R.Independent · IND6790.6%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- −22.5%
- DMK share
- 35.8% → 37.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- — → —