Constituency
4. Park Town
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PARK-TOWN
DMK 55.9%won by 21.9%GKC 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.7% to 21.9%.
- New challengerGKC (GKC) finished second with 34.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.0% of the vote between them, up from 60.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
68,098
Margin
14,898
21.88%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1SOMU,N.V.NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,09555.9%
- 2LALCHAND DAGA,S.GKC · GKC23,19734.1%
- 3ARUMUGHA NAICKER,AJanata Party · JNP6,5569.6%
- 4MANAKCHAND NAHAR,Independent · IND1460.2%
- 5JAGAJOTHI ALIAS GOVINDARAJULU,CIndependent · IND1040.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–GKC swing
- −10.9%
- DMK share
- 32.8% → 55.9%
- GKC share
- 0.0% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —