Constituency
189. Thirumaiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-THIRUMAIYAM
DMK 30.3%won by 5.4%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.2% between them, down from 97.6% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,06,864
Margin
5,744
5.38%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1V. SOBIAHDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,37430.3%
- 2C. SWAMINATHANIndian National Congress · INC26,63024.9%
- 3S. REGUPATHYADKJL · ADKJL26,62524.9%
- 4K. VAIRAMUTHUADKJR · ADKJR21,23519.9%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +46.7%
- DMK share
- 28.1% → 30.3%
- INC share
- 69.4% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —