Constituency
12. Kuruvinatham
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1985
PY-KURUVINATHAM
DMK 40.7%won by 8.2%AIADMK 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.5% to 8.2%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 32.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- 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
10,344
Margin
846
8.18%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMKSince 1980
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −34.4%
- DMK share
- 42.6% → 40.7%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —