Constituency
42. Chengam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-CHENGAM
AIADMK 59.3%won by 40.9%JD 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 40.9%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 59.3% of the vote here (+59.3%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 18.5% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.8% of the vote between them, up from 64.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
92,081
Margin
37,617
40.85%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AIADMK- 1P. VEERA PANDIYANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK54,61159.3%
- 2K. MUNUSAMYJanata Dal · JD16,99418.5%
- 3M. ANNAPPANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK11,28312.3%
- 4T. SAMIKKANNUIndependent · IND7,0567.7%
- 5K. KESAVALUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,1091.2%
- 6V. NARAYANASAMYIndependent · IND4590.5%
- 7P. DHANAPALIndependent · IND2740.3%
- 8A. RAMACHANDARANIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 9P. GOVINDARAJIndependent · IND1080.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–JD swing
- +40.9%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 59.3%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —