Constituency
134. Cumbum
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-CUMBUM
AIADMK 49.2%won by 12.6%DMK 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.0% to 12.6%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
96,696
Margin
12,182
12.60%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1GOPALAN, R. T.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK47,57749.2%
- 2CUMBUM MAHANDIRAN, A.K.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,39536.6%
- 3CHANDRASEKARAN, P.K.RIndependent · IND12,80013.2%
- 4CHETTIAR, M.S. PONNUIndependent · IND3860.4%
- 5KAMUTHURAI, S.Independent · IND3650.4%
- 6SURULIVELU, K.Independent · IND1730.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +11.6%
- AIADMK share
- 41.5% → 49.2%
- DMK share
- 40.5% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —