Constituency
231. Padmanabhapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1977
TN-PADMANABHAPURAM
JNP 47.8%won by 17.0%AIADMK 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 17.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 47.8% of the vote here (+47.8%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 30.8% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.6% between them, down from 85.7% — 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
47,914
Margin
8,153
17.02%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1A. SWAMIDHASJanata Party · JNP22,91047.8%
- 2N.V. KANNIYAPANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK14,75730.8%
- 3A. RAJAPPADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK5,55111.6%
- 4M. RATNASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC3,7137.7%
- 5R. ANTROSE MARYIndependent · IND6621.4%
- 6N.C. RAMASWAMYIndependent · IND3210.7%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–AIADMK swing
- +17.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 47.8%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- — → —