Constituency
230. Kollachal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-KOLLACHAL
INC 60.0%won by 37.6%JD 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.1% to 37.6%.
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.4% of the vote between them, up from 65.3% — 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
87,727
Margin
33,015
37.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PAULIAH A.Indian National Congress · INC52,64160.0%
- 2BATHAKBISHNAN R.Janata Dal · JD19,62622.4%
- 3APPANCHEYL S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,96817.1%
- 4THOMAS S.Independent · IND1110.1%
- 5JOHNSON M.Independent · IND1080.1%
- 6SOOSAINAYAGOM S.Independent · IND1010.1%
- 7JACOBEMIANOUS T.Independent · IND990.1%
- 8LINGARAJA N.Independent · IND730.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JD swing
- −1.6%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 60.0%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —