Constituency
106. Coimbatore South
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-COIMBATORE-SOUTH
CPM 45.4%won by 0.2%INC 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.0% to 0.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% 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
74,172
Margin
133
0.18%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1RAMANI, K.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,66645.4%
- 2GANGA NAIRIndian National Congress · INC33,53345.2%
- 3VENKATACHALAM, K. R.Janata Party · JNP5,4067.3%
- 4RAMANI KUMAR, G.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP8701.2%
- 5MARUDACHALA, V.Independent · IND3580.5%
- 6NADAI MANNAN PARTHASARATHY, N.Independent · IND1820.2%
- 7ARUNAN, K.Independent · IND1570.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.0%
- CPM share
- 30.5% → 45.4%
- INC share
- 20.4% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —