Constituency
128. Gudalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-GUDALUR
DMK 58.4%won by 20.9%CPI 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 20.9%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.9% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — 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
62,990
Margin
13,144
20.87%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1HUTCHI, K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,78058.4%
- 2NARAYANAN NAIR, M. S.Communist Party of India · CPI23,63637.5%
- 3SUBRAMANIAM, R.Independent · IND2,3623.7%
- 4BELLIE, A.Independent · IND2120.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPI swing
- −5.4%
- DMK share
- 26.3% → 58.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —