Constituency
49. Arani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ARANI
AIADMK 50.6%won by 6.0%DMK 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 6.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — 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
84,761
Margin
5,051
5.96%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AIADMK- 1SHANMUGAM, A. CAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,92850.6%
- 2SELVARASU, EDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,87744.7%
- 3ETHIRAJU, GJanata Party · JNP3,9564.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −5.3%
- AIADMK share
- 41.5% → 50.6%
- DMK share
- 30.2% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —