Constituency
5. Perambur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PERAMBUR
DMK 54.6%won by 9.2%CPM 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 9.2%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 45.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 68.6% — 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
90,258
Margin
8,280
9.17%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1BALAN,SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK49,26954.6%
- 2MURUGAIAN,VCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,98945.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPM swing
- −33.6%
- DMK share
- 42.7% → 54.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —