Constituency
67. Kattumannarkoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KATTUMANNARKOIL
DMK 59.5%won by 19.8%CPM 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.7% to 19.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 39.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 66.4% — 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
74,022
Margin
14,662
19.81%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1RAMALINGAM, EDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,01259.5%
- 2MAHALINGAM, P.SCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,35039.7%
- 3RAJAN, M.RIndependent · IND6600.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPM swing
- −17.7%
- DMK share
- 37.5% → 59.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —