Constituency
182. Thiruvonam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THIRUVONAM
DMK 37.2%won by 11.2%ADKJL 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 11.2%.
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.2% between them, down from 85.1% — 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
1,14,298
Margin
12,749
11.15%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1M. RAMACHANDRANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,47937.2%
- 2K. THANGAMUTHUADKJL · ADKJL29,73026.0%
- 3NANCHI K. VARADARAJANIndian National Congress · INC23,12420.2%
- 4DURAI GONINDARAJANADKJR · ADKJR17,52215.3%
- 5C. KASINATHANIndependent · IND1,3331.2%
- 6R. VAIYAPURIIndependent · IND1100.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −25.7%
- DMK share
- 36.8% → 37.2%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —