Constituency
183. Thanjavur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THANJAVUR
DMK 53.8%won by 31.1%ADKJL 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 31.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 48.1% to 53.8% of the vote here (+5.8%).
- New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 22.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 98.0% — 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
1,12,165
Margin
34,853
31.07%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1UBAYADULLAH S.N.MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK60,38053.8%
- 2THIRUGNANAM DURAIADKJL · ADKJL25,52722.8%
- 3DURAI KRISHNAMOORTYIndian National Congress · INC20,38318.2%
- 4MANIVASHAM, K.ADKJR · ADKJR4,7714.3%
- 5NAGARAJAN R.K. THIRUMURUGANIndependent · IND3410.3%
- 6ERAMACHANDRAN D.Independent · IND2440.2%
- 7KUZHUMAIYAN V. KAVINGERIndependent · IND1560.1%
- 8SINGARAVEL, A.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 9PANNEERSELVAM K.Independent · IND1120.1%
- 10MASILAMANI, S.Independent · IND740.1%
- 11SAKTHI MURUGESANIndependent · IND620.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJL swing
- −17.0%
- DMK share
- 48.1% → 53.8%
- ADKJL share
- 0.0% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —