Constituency
88. Salem-I
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-SALEM-I
AIADMK 52.5%won by 19.8%IND 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.5% to 19.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.7% — it polled just 0.3% in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 66.9% — 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
97,010
Margin
19,231
19.82%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KRISHNARAJ, GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK50,97652.5%
- 2AMANULLAH KHANIndependent · IND31,74532.7%
- 3PALANIYEP PAN, A. KJanata Party · JNP12,39112.8%
- 4PALANISAMI, S. ABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5970.6%
- 5SOUNDAPPAN, VIndependent · IND4670.5%
- 6RAJENDRAN, S. R. VIndependent · IND2860.3%
- 7GANESADASAN,MIndependent · IND2280.2%
- 8RAMAKRISHNAN, O.R.AIndependent · IND1450.1%
- 9BALU (ALIAS) BALASUBRAMANIAMIndependent · IND1230.1%
- 10JAYAGOPAL, T.KIndependent · IND520.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–IND swing
- −18.1%
- AIADMK share
- 38.2% → 52.5%
- IND share
- 0.3% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —