Constituency
62. Nellikuppam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-NELLIKUPPAM
DMK 55.2%won by 16.5%CPM 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 16.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.9% to 55.2% of the vote here (+29.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 58.7% — 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
73,455
Margin
12,111
16.49%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1KRISHNAMOORTHI, VDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,52655.2%
- 2GOVINDARAJAN, CCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,41538.7%
- 3DHANDAPANI, CJanata Party · JNP3,6555.0%
- 4SEETHARAMAN, R.VRPI · RPI8591.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–CPM swing
- +23.3%
- DMK share
- 25.9% → 55.2%
- CPM share
- 32.8% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- — → —