Constituency
97. Kapilamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KAPILAMALAI
AIADMK 45.1%won by 6.2%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 6.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 59.3% — 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
86,948
Margin
5,401
6.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1VELAPPAN C. V.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK39,22445.1%
- 2SENGOTTAIYAN, P.Indian National Congress · INC33,82338.9%
- 3PARAMASHIVAM, V. S.Janata Party · JNP13,03215.0%
- 4MANI, A.Independent · IND8691.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −16.3%
- AIADMK share
- 36.5% → 45.1%
- INC share
- 14.1% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —