Constituency
43. Thandarambattu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-THANDARAMBATTU
DMK 63.9%won by 29.0%GKC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 29.0%.
- New challengerGKC (GKC) finished second with 34.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.8% — 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
72,540
Margin
21,069
29.04%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1VENUGOPAL, DDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,32663.9%
- 2KASINATHAN, UGKC · GKC25,25734.8%
- 3MUNUSAMY KANDAR, KIndependent · IND5930.8%
- 4RAMU REDDIAR, BIndependent · IND3640.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–GKC swing
- −9.0%
- DMK share
- 38.0% → 63.9%
- GKC share
- 0.0% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —