Constituency
12. Kuruvinatham
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1980
PY-KURUVINATHAM
DMK 42.6%won by 11.5%JNP 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 11.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 10.3% to 42.6% of the vote here (+32.3%).
- 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
8,776
Margin
1,013
11.54%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M. A. SHANMUGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,73842.6%
- 2K. R. SUBRAMANIA PADAYACHIJanata Party · JNP2,72531.1%
- 3N. VENKATASAMYIndependent · IND2,31326.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–JNP swing
- +36.2%
- DMK share
- 10.3% → 42.6%
- JNP share
- 34.9% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —