Constituency
185. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-PAPANASAM
INC 56.1%won by 22.6%DMK 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 22.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.7% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way 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
96,987
Margin
21,925
22.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1S. RAJARAMANIndian National Congress · INC54,44556.1%
- 2S. KALAYANASUNDARAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,52033.5%
- 3K. GONDINDARAJUPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6,2796.5%
- 4N. KALIMUTHUIndependent · IND1,9002.0%
- 5R. SUNDARAMOORTHYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4971.5%
- 6S. RENGARAJANIndependent · IND1520.2%
- 7A. R. MARIMUTHUIndependent · IND1010.1%
- 8P. SOWRIRAJANIndependent · IND930.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +21.4%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 56.1%
- DMK share
- 37.7% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —