Constituency
16. Ponneri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PONNERI
AIADMK 51.1%won by 18.0%DMK 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.1% to 18.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 70.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
83,033
Margin
14,918
17.97%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHAKARAPANI,RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,40851.1%
- 2NAGALINGAM,PDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,49033.1%
- 3VETRIVEERAN,GIndependent · IND7,5089.0%
- 4MUNIVEL,R.SJanata Party · JNP4,6195.6%
- 5SIVALINGAM,KIndependent · IND3500.4%
- 6SEEMEN,THALAPATHY,C.VIndependent · IND3130.4%
- 7CHINNARAJ,GIndependent · IND2340.3%
- 8ELUMALAI A.PIndependent · IND1110.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +2.8%
- AIADMK share
- 42.6% → 51.1%
- DMK share
- 27.5% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —