Constituency
6. Purasawalkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PURASAWALKAM
DMK 52.3%won by 5.7%AIADMK 46.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.9% to 5.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,00,724
Margin
5,708
5.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1ANBAZHAGAN,KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK52,72952.3%
- 2VALAMPURI JOHNAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK47,02146.7%
- 3MANIVANNAN,DIndependent · IND5350.5%
- 4MANI,DIndependent · IND4390.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −17.7%
- DMK share
- 45.1% → 52.3%
- AIADMK share
- 21.7% → 46.7%
- Turnout
- — → —