Constituency
53. Melmalayanur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-MELMALAYANUR
AIADMK 48.8%won by 0.2%INC 48.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.1% to 0.2%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 48.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 58.8% — 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
81,027
Margin
198
0.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHINNADURAI, AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK39,57248.8%
- 2PERUMAL NAINAR, VIndian National Congress · INC39,37448.6%
- 3RATHINASWAMY, T. SRPI · RPI1,7502.2%
- 4KOTHANDAM, HIndependent · IND3310.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −38.7%
- AIADMK share
- 38.9% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 48.6%
- Turnout
- — → —