Constituency
135. Andipatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ANDIPATTI
AIADMK 59.8%won by 37.6%INC 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.4% to 37.6%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 22.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.0% of the vote between them, up from 57.4% — 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
74,415
Margin
27,982
37.60%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAJENDRAN, S. S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK44,49059.8%
- 2KANDASAMY, K.Indian National Congress · INC16,50822.2%
- 3GURUSAMY, N. V.Janata Party · JNP9,88913.3%
- 4VETRIVENTHAN, A.Independent · IND3,0734.1%
- 5MUTHUSAMY, S.Independent · IND4550.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- +3.2%
- AIADMK share
- 34.4% → 59.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- — → —