Constituency
142. Madurai West
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-MADURAI-WEST
AIADMK 59.6%won by 22.0%DMK 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.5% to 22.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
95,646
Margin
21,066
22.02%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAMACHANDRAN, M. G.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK57,01959.6%
- 2MUTHURAMALINGAM, PON.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,95337.6%
- 3KAMARAJ, A. C.Janata Party · JNP2,1782.3%
- 4MYANDI, S.Independent · IND1300.1%
- 5SUBBURASU, K. U.Independent · IND1240.1%
- 6VELSAMY NADAR, V. M. S.Independent · IND1230.1%
- 7KRISHNAN, J. S.Independent · IND1190.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +0.5%
- AIADMK share
- 43.1% → 59.6%
- DMK share
- 21.6% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —