Constituency
119. Perundurai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PERUNDURAI
CPI 54.7%won by 14.4%INC 40.3%
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 14.4%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 32.0% to 54.7% of the vote here (+22.7%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.9% — 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
80,837
Margin
11,667
14.43%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1NALLAPAN, T. K.Communist Party of India · CPI44,21054.7%
- 2JAGANATHAN, N. K. P.Indian National Congress · INC32,54340.3%
- 3GOPALAN, T. C.Janata Party · JNP2,1832.7%
- 4PALANIAPPANIndependent · IND8951.1%
- 5KUMARASAMY GOUNDER, T. N.Independent · IND7420.9%
- 6ARUMUGAM, S. S.Independent · IND2640.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −17.6%
- CPI share
- 32.0% → 54.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —