Constituency
228. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
DMK 34.6%won by 2.4%INC 32.2%
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 2.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 44.9% to 34.6% of the vote here (−10.3%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% 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
96,332
Margin
2,339
2.43%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1SUBRAMONIA PILLAI, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK33,37634.6%
- 2AURMUGHAM PILLAI V.Indian National Congress · INC31,03732.2%
- 3CHOCKALINGAM PILLAI K.ADKJL · ADKJL22,39123.2%
- 4PERUMAL PILLAI K.ADKJR · ADKJR5,9286.2%
- 5MONICKAVASAGAM PILLAI S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9302.0%
- 6KODIKKAL CHELLAPPAIndependent · IND7110.7%
- 7CHELLAVADIVOO, C.Independent · IND5810.6%
- 8VETHAMANICKAM A.Independent · IND1770.2%
- 9HARI RAMAKRISHNAN, I.Independent · IND920.1%
- 10THANGASAMY, V.Independent · IND670.1%
- 11THANGASELVIN, D.Independent · IND420.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- −42.5%
- DMK share
- 44.9% → 34.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —