Constituency
84. Mettur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-METTUR
AIADMK 58.3%won by 22.5%DMK 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.8% to 22.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.5% — 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
83,810
Margin
18,868
22.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −6.3%
- AIADMK share
- 43.7% → 58.3%
- DMK share
- 14.9% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —