Constituency
120. Erode
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ERODE
AIADMK 56.6%won by 16.8%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 16.8%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 39.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — 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
1,10,104
Margin
18,503
16.81%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIADMK- 1MUTHUSAMY, S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK62,34256.6%
- 2SAINATHAN, R.Indian National Congress · INC43,83939.8%
- 3VARADHARASAN, K. V. V.Janata Party · JNP2,4232.2%
- 4KARUPPANAN, M. S.Independent · IND4510.4%
- 5BALAKRISHNAN, N.Independent · IND2680.2%
- 6KARUNAKARAN, C.Independent · IND2570.2%
- 7AYYAVOO, K.Independent · IND1790.2%
- 8SUBRAMANIAM, G. S.Independent · IND1590.1%
- 9CHAKHARAPANI, R.Independent · IND1130.1%
- 10SHANMUGASUNDARAM, A.Independent · IND730.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −26.3%
- AIADMK share
- 43.1% → 56.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —