Constituency
398. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-TENKASI
INC 62.5%won by 27.5%CPM 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.2% to 27.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.6% to 67.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,33,214
Turnout
67.4%
Valid votes
6,28,887
Margin
1,72,707
27.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1M.ARUNACHALAMIndian National Congress · INC3,93,07562.5%
- 2R.KRISHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,20,36835.0%
- 3S.MUTHIAHIndependent · IND4,3200.7%
- 4S.MANICKARAJTMM · TMM3,6800.6%
- 5E.GOPALAKIRSHNANIndependent · IND2,6380.4%
- 6M.SUBHRAMANIANIndependent · IND2,2710.4%
- 7S.SIVANIndependent · IND1,6750.3%
- 8V.MOHANIndependent · IND8600.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −8.7%
- INC share
- 68.1% → 62.5%
- CPM share
- 31.9% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- 72.0% → 67.4%