Constituency
15. Gummidipoondi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-GUMMIDIPOONDI
AIADMK 49.0%won by 9.2%DMK 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 9.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.8% of the vote between them, up from 69.8% — 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
85,387
Margin
7,826
9.17%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AIADMK- 1MUNIRATHINAM,R.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK41,84549.0%
- 2VENU,KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,01939.8%
- 3PARANDAMAN,MJanata Party · JNP9,52311.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −17.2%
- AIADMK share
- 42.3% → 49.0%
- DMK share
- 15.9% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —