Constituency
57. Kandamangalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KANDAMANGALAM
AIADMK 49.5%won by 3.4%INC 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.1% to 3.4%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 46.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — 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
69,450
Margin
2,357
3.39%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KANNAN, MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK34,36849.5%
- 2MADHAVAN, PIndian National Congress · INC32,01146.1%
- 3DASARATHAN, VJanata Party · JNP1,8972.7%
- 4NAGAMANI, GIndependent · IND7651.1%
- 5KANTHIMATHIIndependent · IND4090.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −35.3%
- AIADMK share
- 38.7% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —