Constituency
68. Chidambaram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-CHIDAMBARAM
AIADMK 51.7%won by 4.0%DMK 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 4.0%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 26.7% to 51.7% of the vote here (+25.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.4% of the vote between them, up from 58.0% — 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
80,699
Margin
3,267
4.05%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +8.6%
- AIADMK share
- 26.7% → 51.7%
- DMK share
- 31.3% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —