Constituency
96. Namakkal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-NAMAKKAL
AIADMK 51.8%won by 4.7%DMK 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.7% to 4.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
82,757
Margin
3,893
4.70%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1ARUNACHALAM R.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,85051.8%
- 2VELUSWAMY K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,95747.1%
- 3ARJUNANIndependent · IND5210.6%
- 4KONDANIndependent · IND4290.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −14.0%
- AIADMK share
- 40.6% → 51.8%
- DMK share
- 21.9% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —