Constituency
37. Gudiyattam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-GUDIYATTAM
CPM 43.9%won by 14.1%IND 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.7% to 14.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.6% of the vote between them, up from 55.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
70,365
Margin
9,940
14.13%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNDARAM, K.RCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM30,86943.9%
- 2WAHAB, K.AIndependent · IND20,92929.7%
- 3SUNDRARAJULU, A. KJanata Party · JNP17,83225.3%
- 4GANESAN, P.SIndependent · IND7351.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −13.2%
- CPM share
- 29.5% → 43.9%
- IND share
- 2.2% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —