Constituency
14. Saidapet
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-SAIDAPET
DMK 47.9%won by 2.0%AIADMK 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.1% to 2.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 66.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
84,261
Margin
1,697
2.01%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −5.1%
- DMK share
- 36.7% → 47.9%
- AIADMK share
- 29.6% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —