Constituency
71. Rishivandiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-RISHIVANDIYAM
AIADMK 61.6%won by 35.1%DMK 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 35.1%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 61.6% of the vote here (+61.6%).
- Safe seatAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
94,263
Margin
33,131
35.15%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1GOVINDASRAJU M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK58,03061.6%
- 2THANGAM M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK24,89926.4%
- 3VIJALAKSHMI P.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK9,56810.2%
- 4THOPPALAN K.Independent · IND9181.0%
- 5CHANDRASEKARAN P.Independent · IND3830.4%
- 6MANI M.Independent · IND3620.4%
- 7MUNUSAMY K.P.Independent · IND1030.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +82.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 61.6%
- DMK share
- 47.0% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —