Constituency
9. T-Nagar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1977
TN-T-NAGAR
DMK 30.9%won by 1.4%AIADMK 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 1.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 47.2% to 30.9% of the vote here (−16.3%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.5% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
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
75,522
Margin
1,030
1.36%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1R.E. CHANDRAN JAYAPALDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK23,34630.9%
- 2K. KRISHNAMOORTHYAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK22,31629.5%
- 3K. KRISHNAMOORTHY (JANA)Janata Party · JNP18,02023.9%
- 4A.J. DOSSIndian National Congress · INC7,83310.4%
- 5K. SOWRIRAJANIndependent · IND2,3873.2%
- 6K. KALYANASUNDARAMIndependent · IND5600.7%
- 7D. JAYAKANTHANIndependent · IND4810.6%
- 8K. RAGHAVANIndependent · IND2420.3%
- 9K.M. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND1700.2%
- 10M.M. KRISHNANIndependent · IND1040.1%
- 11C. VELAYUDHAMIndependent · IND630.1%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −45.8%
- DMK share
- 47.2% → 30.9%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —