Constituency
101. Mettuppalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-METTUPPALAYAM
AIADMK 59.0%won by 19.5%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 19.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 58.1% — 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
81,860
Margin
15,955
19.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- +11.5%
- AIADMK share
- 32.4% → 59.0%
- INC share
- 24.4% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —