Constituency
82. Dharmapuri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-DHARMAPURI
INC 51.1%won by 25.5%DMK 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.2% to 51.1% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
1,05,484
Margin
26,893
25.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PONNUSAMY P.Indian National Congress · INC53,91051.1%
- 2CHINNASAMY R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,01725.6%
- 3RAMALINGAM P.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK22,81021.6%
- 4SURESH R.Independent · IND7680.7%
- 5PALANI K.Independent · IND3070.3%
- 6KRISHNAN L.M.Independent · IND2970.3%
- 7PARTHIBAN P.R.Independent · IND2570.2%
- 8MOORTHI R.Independent · IND1180.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–DMK swing
- +43.0%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 51.1%
- DMK share
- 45.6% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —