Constituency
44. Tiruvannamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TIRUVANNAMALAI
INC 58.8%won by 19.9%AIADMK 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.6% to 58.8% of the vote here (+28.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 62.8% — 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
92,609
Margin
18,385
19.85%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NARAYANASAMY, KIndian National Congress · INC54,43758.8%
- 2SHUNMUGAM, P.UAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK36,05238.9%
- 3NARAYANASAMY, SIndependent · IND6340.7%
- 4VENKATESAN, K.RIndependent · IND5200.6%
- 5GANGADHARA CHETTIAR, SIndependent · IND4560.5%
- 6KANNAN, SIndependent · IND2660.3%
- 7VAITHIANATHAN, SIndependent · IND2440.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AIADMK swing
- +13.6%
- INC share
- 30.6% → 58.8%
- AIADMK share
- 24.4% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —