Constituency
114. Pongalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-PONGALUR
INC 67.1%won by 42.7%DMK 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 42.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from ADKJL (ADKJL) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.1% — 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
96,272
Margin
41,062
42.65%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BALASUBRAMANIYAM S.R.Indian National Congress · INC64,58867.1%
- 2VIJAYALAKSHMI P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK23,52624.4%
- 3IIANCHEZHIAN S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,1875.4%
- 4PERUMAL R.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,3971.5%
- 5MURUGESAN V.TMM · TMM8680.9%
- 6THIRUMANIndependent · IND7060.7%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +38.0%
- INC share
- 32.3% → 67.1%
- DMK share
- 27.6% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —