Constituency
63. Cuddalore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-CUDDALORE
DMK 49.1%won by 3.8%AIADMK 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 3.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 29.2% to 49.1% of the vote here (+19.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 60.8% — 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
82,646
Margin
3,141
3.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner DMK- 1BABU GOVINDARAJANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,53949.1%
- 2RAGUPATHI, AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,39845.3%
- 3BALAKRISHNA SETHUPATHY PADAYACHI, VJanata Party · JNP4,0774.9%
- 4NARASIMHAN, T. RIndependent · IND1910.2%
- 5RAJAMANICKAM, M.PIndependent · IND1710.2%
- 6VISWANATHAN, RIndependent · IND1610.2%
- 7UTHIRAN, N.SIndependent · IND1090.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +6.2%
- DMK share
- 29.2% → 49.1%
- AIADMK share
- 31.6% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —