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26. Tirunallar

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Puducherry Assembly Election, 1980

PY-TIRUNALLAR

DMK 44.4%won by 2.2%AIADMK 42.3%

What changed here

Derived

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.6% to 2.2%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.5% — a tighter two-way 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
8,040
Margin
173
2.15%

Candidates

5 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1N. V. RAMALINGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK3,57344.4%
  2. 2A. SOUNDARARENGAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,40042.3%
  3. 3V. ARUNACHALAMIndependent · IND6297.8%
  4. 4R. RENGANATHANIndependent · IND2222.8%
  5. 5S. R. INDIRSETANIndependent · IND2162.7%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
DMK
DMK–AIADMK swing
−1.4%
DMK share
34.1% → 44.4%
AIADMK share
30.5% → 42.3%
Turnout
— → —
25. Neravy-Grand Aldee27. Neduncadu
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