Constituency
100. Edappadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-EDAPPADI
AIADMK 38.9%won by 6.0%IND 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.4% to 6.0%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
97,554
Margin
5,819
5.96%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AIADMK- 1GANESAN, I.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,97838.9%
- 2NATARAJAN, T.Independent · IND32,15933.0%
- 3SUBRAMANIA GOUNDER, K. S.Indian National Congress · INC17,88418.3%
- 4ARTHANARI, R.Independent · IND4,5444.7%
- 5JAYADERTAN, P.Janata Party · JNP4,1124.2%
- 6PERIYATHAMBI, C.Independent · IND4030.4%
- 7RAMASAMY, P.Independent · IND3170.3%
- 8LOGAVASIKARAN, A.Independent · IND1570.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–IND swing
- −32.6%
- AIADMK share
- 38.6% → 38.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —