Constituency
216. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-TENKASI
INC 62.1%won by 35.2%DMK 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.0% to 35.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.0% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
1,04,893
Margin
36,879
35.16%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1PETER ALPHONSE S.Indian National Congress · INC65,14262.1%
- 2RAMAKRISHNAN S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK28,26326.9%
- 3SASTHA R.T.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,2286.9%
- 4CHELLATHURAI N.MUL · MUL3,1853.0%
- 5KUMAR M.TMM · TMM2730.3%
- 6BALRAJ A.Independent · IND2710.3%
- 7POORVAMPRAKASH T.S.P.Independent · IND1720.2%
- 8RAJAIAH A.Independent · IND1240.1%
- 9VARADARAJ P.Independent · IND910.1%
- 10PALANI T.Independent · IND740.1%
- 11DAVIDRAMAN S.Independent · IND700.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +29.1%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 62.1%
- DMK share
- 30.3% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —