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Constituency

11. Chepauk

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980

TN-CHEPAUK

DMK 55.6%won by 15.7%AIADMK 39.9%

What changed here

Derived

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 15.7%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 66.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
58,639
Margin
9,226
15.73%

Candidates

4 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1RAHMAN KHAN,ADravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,62755.6%
  2. 2ABDUL KHADER,M.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK23,40139.9%
  3. 3KANDASAMY,S.VJanata Party · JNP2,5174.3%
  4. 4RANGANATHAN.K.NIndependent · IND940.2%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
DMK
DMK–AIADMK swing
+5.3%
DMK share
38.4% → 55.6%
AIADMK share
28.0% → 39.9%
Turnout
— → —
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