Constituency
37. Gudiyattam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1977
TN-GUDIYATTAM
CPM 29.5%won by 3.7%JNP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 3.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 9.2% to 29.5% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.4% between them, down from 86.3% — 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
69,692
Margin
2,544
3.65%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1V.K. KOTHANDARAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,59029.5%
- 2SOUNDARARAJULU NAIDUJanata Party · JNP18,04625.9%
- 3R. GOVINDASAMYIndian National Congress · INC15,75322.6%
- 4K.G. MUNIYAPPANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK12,22417.5%
- 5K. MUNASAMY CHOUDARYIndependent · IND1,5642.2%
- 6D. RANGANATHANIndependent · IND8791.3%
- 7P.S. GHANESANIndependent · IND6360.9%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −5.6%
- CPM share
- 9.2% → 29.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —