Constituency
129. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PALANI
CPM 53.1%won by 7.9%INC 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 7.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 63.5% — 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
78,830
Margin
6,228
7.90%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1PALANIVEL, N.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,87453.1%
- 2MANI, S. R. P.Indian National Congress · INC35,64645.2%
- 3CHANDRAN, R.Janata Party · JNP1,3101.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.3%
- CPM share
- 34.5% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 29.0% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- — → —