Constituency
219. Palayamkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-PALAYAMKOTTAI
DMK 34.4%won by 2.5%MUL 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.8% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% 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
98,943
Margin
2,431
2.46%
Candidates
23 contested · winner DMK- 1GURUNATHAN, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,04634.4%
- 2KHAJA MOHIDEEN, S.A.MUL · MUL31,61532.0%
- 3RAJASELVAMADKJR · ADKJR16,73816.9%
- 4KARUPPIAH, A.ADKJL · ADKJL13,32113.5%
- 5GASPAR RAJA G.Independent · IND8020.8%
- 6RADHAKRISHNAN, P.Independent · IND3690.4%
- 7THANGAVEL, A.Independent · IND3030.3%
- 8HUSSAIN, M.S.Independent · IND2990.3%
- 9ATHIRAJ, E.Independent · IND1580.2%
- 10SUTHARSON, J.Independent · IND1570.2%
- 11KAJA MOHIDEEN, S.A.Independent · IND1440.1%
- 12THOMAS, F.Independent · IND1280.1%
- 13KAJA MOHDEEN T,M,.SIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 14VIJAYAN, I.Independent · IND1150.1%
- 15KAJA MOHIDEEN, P.M.Independent · IND1060.1%
- 16SUBRAMANIAN, A.Independent · IND960.1%
- 17KAJA MOHIDEEN, M.Independent · IND840.1%
- 18CADER MOHIDEEN M.MIndependent · IND830.1%
- 19KAMARAJ, R.Independent · IND650.1%
- 20STEPHEN RAJ M.Independent · IND640.1%
- 21JAYASINGH, V.Independent · IND500.1%
- 22SELVINKUMAR, D.Independent · IND490.0%
- 23KRISHNAN, N.Independent · IND300.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–MUL swing
- −49.5%
- DMK share
- 51.9% → 34.4%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —