Constituency
110. Valparai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-VALPARAI
CPI 56.8%won by 16.0%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 16.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 26.5% to 56.8% of the vote here (+30.3%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 60.7% — 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
81,658
Margin
13,052
15.98%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1KARUPPIAH, A. T.Communist Party of India · CPI46,40656.8%
- 2KOVAI THANGAMIndian National Congress · INC33,35440.8%
- 3KUPPUSWAMI, M.Independent · IND1,6702.0%
- 4DETCHANAMOORTHY, V.Independent · IND2280.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −10.5%
- CPI share
- 26.5% → 56.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —