Constituency
80. Morappur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-MORAPPUR
AIADMK 57.2%won by 17.4%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.4% to 17.4%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 39.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% 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
75,370
Margin
13,129
17.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KUPPUSAMY, N.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK43,09657.2%
- 2BALASUBRAMANIAN, R.Indian National Congress · INC29,96739.8%
- 3SUADEV, G.Janata Party · JNP1,0891.4%
- 4SRINIVASAN, M.R.Independent · IND7130.9%
- 5THEETHAN, K.Independent · IND2690.4%
- 6MARIAPPAN, T.M.A.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2360.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −17.0%
- AIADMK share
- 34.4% → 57.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —