Constituency
12. Triplicane
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TRIPLICANE
INC 52.8%won by 10.8%INCU 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.7% to 52.8% of the vote here (+39.1%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 42.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — 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
63,798
Margin
6,878
10.78%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HAJA SHAREEFF,K.S.GIndian National Congress · INC33,66452.8%
- 2SRIDHARAN,V.KINCU · INCU26,78642.0%
- 3RAMASWAMY,GJanata Party · JNP1,8112.8%
- 4GOPALAKRISHNAN,NJNPSR · JNPSR5670.9%
- 5LAKSHMAIAH,CIndependent · IND4850.8%
- 6JAYALAKSHMI V.Independent · IND3770.6%
- 7CHANDRAMOHAN,ERAIndependent · IND1080.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- −2.9%
- INC share
- 13.7% → 52.8%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —