Constituency
20. Tambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TAMBARAM
DMK 51.5%won by 5.3%AIADMK 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.8% to 51.5% of the vote here (+16.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 70.0% — 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
1,16,326
Margin
6,185
5.32%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1PAMMAL NALLATHAMBIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK59,93151.5%
- 2MUNU ADHIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,74646.2%
- 3GAJENDRAN, M.Janata Party · JNP1,9991.7%
- 4MERVINIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 5MOHAN,GIndependent · IND1880.2%
- 6RENGANATHAN,KIndependent · IND1690.1%
- 7JOTHI, TIndependent · IND740.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +5.8%
- DMK share
- 34.8% → 51.5%
- AIADMK share
- 35.2% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —