Constituency
19. Thattanchavady
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1980
PY-THATTANCHAVADY
JNP 48.9%won by 23.0%CPI 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.1% to 23.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
9,875
Margin
2,270
22.99%
Candidates
3 contested · winner JNP- 1V. PETHAPERUMALJanata Party · JNP4,82448.9%
- 2N. KANDEBANCommunist Party of India · CPI2,55425.9%
- 3A. R. SOOSAIRAJIndian National Congress · INC2,49725.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–CPI swing
- −8.1%
- JNP share
- 54.5% → 48.9%
- CPI share
- 23.4% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —